how do i find longitude and lattitude of a location?

Answer 1

check on a map.

"google earth" gives longitude/latitude cordinates, for example.

Answer 2

*Chuckles* A chart or a map is helpfull. If you're using a Map, you find two large- preferable 3 or 4- large objects that you can identify on the map.

Take your compass, and sight on "The Large Water Tank" lets call that at position 135 degrees from where your standing. You take another sighting- a large mountain top, from bearing 196. You take another bearing sight of a radio tower- you can see it marked on the map- from position 260, and you take the last bearing of a large 50 foot depression that you can see both with your eyes, and on the map with the "tick marks" pointing down

You of course, have very carefully covered your map with PLASTIC sheeting, and you have VERY CAREFULLY using a grease pencil, drew a line from each of these points to where they all intersect. If you do this very very carefully, you should have a very tiny kinda triangle or trapizod- you are located within this little circle.

If you have a GPS unit, it does all this nifty stuff using up to 24 sattlites, all within a few minutes.

Now, lets say you're at sea! You can't see land at all. But you have a sextant, and you have a very very accurate clock called a Chronometer- the Chronometer is set to Grenach, England. Around the world, the world is broken up into 24 hours- so you can count ahead hours and minutes to your current LONGITUDE.

Now,,,its a bright, sunny day, and its EXACTLY NOON- you take your Sextant, you put on the sun filters so you don't go blind, and you "Shoot the Sun"- that is, you start out looking at the sun thru a small 3 power telescope and you "bring the sun down" to the horizon splitting the sun in half- then, using the very small magnifying glass on the sextants quadrant you see your LATTITUDE.

Now, for different times of the year, if I remember right theres like 54 major stars that can be used using Navagation Almanacs that show the time when certain starts show above the horizon.

Now, what I have described is only the very very basics- theres formulas and charts and time schedules and stuff thats used in the real world to do all this nifty stuff.

Answer 3

A quick way is to use Google Earth. Another way is to buy a civilian GPS unit from a sporting goods store. Remember it has an accuracy of approximately 50 feet or more. I like using MapTech.com. Find the USGS Quadrangle in your geographic area and you can find the lat and lon that way by approximating the geographic features around your area of interest.
Good luck.

Answer 4

You can figure out what the longitude and latitude is of your location,,, if you know what your location is, on a map that has this on it. If you don't have one yourself you can go to your local library.

Answer 5

Google Earth.

Answer 6

properly, the subject is that selection and Longitude are such super factors that one factor that's an identical in LAT and LON could be youre finished community. so as that wont assist you.

Answer 7

Use Google Maps

1st put in the address
2nd Use link this page (the lat/long in in the url)

Answer 8

Use a GPS. Then check a map. Maptech.com has lat and lon.

Answer 9

check on a map or
view on google earth

Answer 10

If you have a map its down the sides of it or a gps will tell you