OK, now you’re armed with your approximate location, head back to Google Maps and in the search box type the lat and long separated by a comma or a space.
Click to zoom in and it will show the position of the last point you clicked. If you’re in another part of the world, or Streetmap doesn’t work for you, you can find your Lat & Long on at the bottom of the page.Make a note of the decimal version of your Lat and Long. This will give you the location in a variety of forms. Then, at the bottom of the page, find the little link saying ‘Click here to convert/measure coordinates’. You can click on the map to move the pointer to the right place. In the UK, I suggest going to Streetmap and getting an approximate fix using your postcode. If not, then you need to find your location some other way.If you have a GPS handy, you can just step outside your front door and take a reading. If searching for placenames or postal/zip codes doesn’t give you a good enough location, you need to use latitude and longitude.
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So here’s my quick guide on how to create a useful, short URL that will really tell people where you live, and will take them to something like this:
I wanted to do something better than this, and while I knew all kinds of sophisticated things were possible with a bit of Javascript and the Google API, I just don’t have the time to play with this at present, much to my chagrin. Well, actually, we’re not quite here, we’re at the end of the street and on the other side of the road, but this should give you an idea of how to find us.” I usually type in my postal code and send a link to the resulting map, with a bit of explanation: I don’t know about you, but I’m always sending Google Maps locations to people who are coming to visit.