Website to get GPS coordinates

shayser · 09-01-2009 10:28PM #1

Are there any websites that give the GPS coordinates for an address - in Ireland?

Karoma · 09-01-2009 10:31PM

Kinda - http://www.irishpostcodes.ie (ED: I could have sworn that used to be more useful...hmmm.)
Wikipedia has some good old-fashioned co-ords for some villages, towns, etc.
Google Maps indirectly does it.

Where are you looking for? or is it an idea for a project?

shayser · 09-01-2009 11:09PM

Thanks. I find setting the destination in the sat nav by GPS coordinates much handier than entering the postal address, which sometimes is inaccurate or just wrong.

I'm looking for the GPS of Bewley's in Leopardstown, for tomorrow. Driving through Dublin might as well be driving through the Brazilian rain forest for me! The address will be fine though, just as I say, coordinates handier.

Great idea for a project alright.

craiginireland · 10-01-2009 12:04PM

If you go to tom tom home (if you have one) and search for poi's in ireland. there will b a specific one for Bewleys Leopardstown.

Alternatively come of the m50 (Dun Laoighaire exit) and you cant miss it!

coylemj · 10-01-2009 01:11PM

Here you go

N53.27143 W6.20535

Alun · 10-01-2009 07:13PM

Here's a great little tool, not only for finding those destinations that the nuvi or Mapsource stubbornly refuse to find, but also allows you much more control over what appears on the display of your Favourites.

http://www.slowjim.com/nuvi_editor_desc.htm

garydubh · 10-01-2009 10:57PM

shayser wrote: »

Are there any websites that give the GPS coordinates for an address - in Ireland?

www.irishpostcodes.ie and more instructions for getting a Lat/Long here:
http://www.irishpostcodes.ie/yahoo1.php

Lord Nikon · 11-01-2009 06:48PM

According to Google Earth...

53°16'17.31 N 6°12'21.31 W

garydubh · 11-01-2009 07:20PM

neuromancer wrote: »

According to Google Earth...

53°16'17.31 N 6°12'21.31 W

The above is Degrees Minutes Seconds and decimals of seconds - it can also be written as

53 16.289 N, W6 12.355 W - which is Degrees Minutes and Decimals of Minutes

or
53.27148 N 6.20592 W - which is decimal degrees

They all mean the same thing - just different ways of presenting it - but still the reason that people get it completely mixed up and go to the wrong location. That's why PON Codes were invented!

They are a few meters different to what Coylmj gave you - understandable if they were picked from a Map and should not be a problem.

You should be able to change the settings on your SatNav to match any of the three above.

coylemj · 14-01-2009 01:29AM

coylemj wrote: »

Here you go

N53.27143 W6.20535

I used MapSource to obtain those co-ordinates so I'd be more confident of those than anything quoted by Google Earth.

If you zoom into any part of rural Ireland on Google Earth where there are country roads and hi-res images, just switch on 'roads' and see how far out the satellite image is relative to the digital (yellow line) roads, this will undermine your confidence in Google Earth lat/long co-ordinates.

garydubh · 14-01-2009 07:27AM

coylemj wrote: »

I used MapSource to obtain those co-ordinates so I'd be more confident of those than anything quoted by Google Earth.

If you zoom into any part of rural Ireland on Google Earth where there are country roads and hi-res images, just switch on 'roads' and see how far out the satellite image is relative to the digital (yellow line) roads, this will undermine your confidence in Google Earth lat/long co-ordinates.

You are right about Google Earth - you should not use the Sat Imagery for getting positions as the imagery is universally shifted east/west across Ireland by about 20/30 meters so that the TeleAtlas Mapping and the imagery do not coinincide - in this case the TeleAtlas road mapping is more accurate.

However, the difference beween the two positions generated is 37 meters and therefore, given the size of the Bewleys site - this will not make any great difference in finding it with a SatNav. The Mapsource Generated position is on the access road and the Google one is off the road to the west which is consistent with the normal error.

Put either into a SatNav and you will still get there!

arno533 · 11-05-2010 10:03AM

You should try this very useful tool :

http://gps.studio9.be

uisce33 · 11-07-2012 10:02AM

can anyone give me the sat nav cords for the red cow park and ride please

Mech1 · 11-07-2012 10:10AM

Red cow Park and ride

53deg 19.015N 6deg 22.266W

uisce33 · 11-07-2012 02:24PM

thank you mech1

Website to get GPS coordinates

Comments