How to enter coordinates in Google. Google Earth coordinates
This is what an example of a Google map looks like with marks of interesting places. Places are highlighted with yellow stars and signed, and if I want to visit one of them again, I open the map on my iPhone and use it as a navigator with the desired point.
Each point on the globe has coordinates in numbers, which I usually indicate on my blog in reports about interesting places. Let's see how to use them using Google Maps.
To get started with Google Maps, log in to your Google account so that the points are saved in your personal map. If it is not there, you can quickly register (link to log in or register: myaccount.google.com).
For example, in the description of the Abandoned Hotel on the Seashore you found its coordinates in the form of numbers:
10.323483,107.084107 ←Select and copy these numbers, open Google (you can just use a search engine, or you can use a Google map - it doesn’t matter), paste the numbers into the search box and press Enter↩.
A map will open in front of us, on which we just need to click with the cursor and zoom in (by turning the mouse wheel) to see where this place is.
The star changed color and a yellow star appeared on the map - the place was saved.
Now we click on the inscription “Change label” and sign this place so that we can later understand what this point is.
Now in your personal Google map there is a point of the Abandoned Hotel (). And you can open the Google maps application on your phone and (if you are logged into your Google account from your phone), use it as navigation.
How to use Google maps navigation on your phone (useful features)
Open points saved on your computer on a Google map
If you saved points by logging into your Google account, then these points are forever saved on your personal map, and you can open them from any device, after first logging into your Google account on this device. The points will be shown in the Google maps application. To do this, you only need the Internet and GPS navigation (turn on satellite data transmission on your smartphone if this does not happen automatically).
Save a place on Google map
To save the point where you are already located on your smartphone, you need to open the Google maps application, turn on the Internet and GPS navigation on your smartphone, find yourself on the map (if navigation is turned on, the Map will show you a point with your location), click on this point with your finger and hold it until the panel at the bottom “Dropped pin” opens. Click on this panel and see the “Save” asterisk. Click on the star - your place is saved. You can also sign a Label (visible only to you) for this location.
Get directions to a place on Google map
To see how to get to a place, you need to plot a route. To do this, we find on the map the point we need to get to, click on it, and a car icon appears in the field of view on the screen. Click on the car and get the route laid out by Google. If desired, you can select the type of transport in the menu above: car, public transport, man (walk).
Public transport on Google maps
Google Maps, when plotting a route, shows the numbers of buses that can take you to the desired place in an unfamiliar city and recommends what is the best way to go: bus, metro, taxi or walking. All you need is access to the Internet - for this, in any new place you can simply buy a local SIM card with the Internet - and you always have navigation.
Interesting places with coordinates on my blog for your notes:
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One of the main and most interesting functions of the Google Earth program is the search for any objects and places using pre-known coordinates. To do this, you need to enter the required data in the search window specially designated for this. If you are working with the program for the first time and do not know How to enter coordinates in Google Earth, then read this article and follow the steps described here step by step.
Before we begin directly entering coordinates into Google Earth, we will understand the terminology, which will greatly facilitate the process of searching and entering them. For any point on the planet, the latitude is first indicated, and then the longitude. As an example, consider the coordinates of London Big Ben. For him:
- latitude - 51° 30" and 3" N;
- longitude - 0°, 7" and 28" W.
Degrees (°) are indicated first, then minutes (") and seconds ("). The letter at the end (“N”, “W”, “E”, “S” or “C”, “Yu”, “Z”, “E”) is the cardinal direction (north, south, west and east, respectively). It turns out that the coordinates for London Big Ben will read like this: fifty-one degrees thirty minutes and three seconds north (N symbol) latitude (since it is always indicated first) and zero degrees, seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds west longitude .
Instructions for entering coordinates
- Open Google Earth and wait for it to fully load (you need an Internet connection to work).
- At the top of the screen, find the “Add” tab and select “Label” from the drop-down list.
- You can also use “hot keys” to quickly access the desired function (indicated next to the name). For “Mark” this is a simultaneous pressing of the “CTRL”, “Shift” and “P” buttons (English layout).
- A window will open for entering coordinates as shown in the screenshot below. In our instructions we use Big Ben's data, but you can try any others. To do this, just use the search or find out the coordinates of any important geographical object on Wikipedia.
- Enter the width in the “Width” field, and the longitude in the “Longitude” field.
- In the topmost field, enter a clear name for the label.
- Now, in the same window, click on the “Description” button or in the “Label name” field. After this, you will move to the point you just entered.
- To save the mark, click on the “Ok” or “Cancel” button to delete the changes made (in this case, the screen will not move anywhere and you can continue your observations).
Now you know how to use coordinate search in Google Earth and you can easily find any object. To get closer and take a closer look, use the mouse wheel.
Below are the coordinates of interesting places in Google Earth:
- Alcatraz Prison - 37° 49" 35.91" N 122° 25" 22.11" W
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - 51°23"21.07"N 30° 6"1.03"E
- Buran on Baikonur - 45°55"10.74"N, 63°18"36.73"E
- France, Eiffel Tower - 48°51"29.54"N 2°17"39.69"E
- Egypt, Pyramid of Cheops - 29°5841N 31°753E
- Italy, Leaning Tower of Pisa - 43° 43 22.72, 10° 23 46.86
- Stonehenge - 51°10"43.88"N 1°49"35.01"W
- Greece, Akropolis - 37°58"16.69"N 23°43"34.10"E
- Sydney Opera House - 33°51"24.34"S 151°12"54.17"E
- New York, Statue of Liberty - 40°41"20.46N 74°02"40.66W
- Pillau Fortress, Russia, Baltiysk, 54° 38" 32.56"N, 19° 53" 16.09"E
- London Big Ben - 51°30"3.34"N 0°7"28.72"W
- Rybachiy village, nuclear submarine base: 52°55"9.98"N 158°29"21.44"E
- Alcatraz Prison: 37° 49" 35.91" N 122° 25" 22.11" W
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: 51°23"21.07"N 30° 6"1.03"E
- Abandoned ships of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident 51°17"3.48"N, 30°12"47.93"E
- Forgotten part of the missile attack warning system (not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant): 51°18"22.37"N 30° 4"1.21"E
- Buran on Baikonur: 45°55"10.74"N, 63°18"36.73"E
- France, Eiffel Tower: 48°51"29.54"N 2°17"39.69"E
- Pos. Zvezdny, parking for trains with nuclear missiles: 57°41"26.60"N 56°17"56.14"E
- NASA space tracking station. 35°24"8.54"S 148°58"52.69"E
- And Bill Gates lives here 47°37"39.93"N 122°14"31.20"W
- Britain, Stonehenge: 51°10?43.88?N 1°49?35.01?W
- Egypt, Pyramid of Cheops: 29°58?41?N 31°7?53?E
- Italy, Rome, Colosseum: 41°53?24.65N 12°29?32.85E
- Britain, London - “Big Ben”: 51°30?3.34?N 0°7?28.72?W
- USA, Los Angeles, “HOLLYWOOD”: 34° 8?2.64?N 118°19?17.98?W
- Peru, Image of a face measuring 5x4 km on the rocks 16°20"5.58"S 71°57"39.72"W I looked at an altitude of 35 km.
- Kazakhstan, Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch site - 45°57?45.36?N 63°18?34.62?E
- Jerusalem, Western Wall, 31°46?35.7?N 35° 14?4.1?E
- Vatican, St. Peter's Church, 41°54?7.49?N 12°27?22.41?E
- Italy, Leaning Tower of Pisa, 43° 43? 22.72?, 10° 23? 46.86?
- France, entrance to the Channel Tunnel, 50°55?20.34?N 1°46?54.84?E
- Britain, entrance to the Channel Tunnel, 51° 5?49.17?N 1° 9?20.50?E
- Fac on the field 53°32"19.24"N 1°20"48.18"W
- Fascist symbols in buildings 32°40"36.63"N 117° 9"27.32"W
- Drawings in the Peruvian Nazca Desert (center of the circle) - 14°41"18.31"S 75°07"23.01"W
- Stonehenge - 51°10"43.88"N 1°49"35.01"W
- London - "Big Ben" - 51°30"3.34"N 0°7"28.72"W
- Washington - Pentagon - 38°52"16.39"N 77°3"27.76"W
- Cape Canaveral Spaceport - 28°29"7.66"N 80°33"38.13"W
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (one of the launch sites) - 45°59"46.06"N 63°33"50.18"E
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome (low resolution) - 62°42"42.05"N 40°18"1.36"E
- Aztec City - Teotihuacan (Mexico): 19°41"33.17"N 98°50"37.63"W
- Cuicuilco - 19°18"5.73"N 99°10"53.14"W
- Greece: Akropolis: 37°58"16.69"N 23°43"34.10"E
- London, Heathrow Airport: 51°28"39.16"N 0°29"2.50"W
- Flying car in Australia: 32° 0"42.42"S 115°47"10.49"E
- Flying boat, in Buenos Airos: 34°36"29.85"S 58°21"52.79"W
- Hoover Dam, USA, border of Arizona and Nevada: 36° 0"56.40"N 114°44"15.29"W.
- Niagara Falls: 43° 4"40.36"N 79° 4"31.48"W
- Egypt: Pyramids of Giza: 29°58"41"N 31°7"53"E
- Rome, Colosseum: 41°53"24.65N 12°29"32.85E
- New York: Statue of Liberty: 40°41"20.46N 74°02"40.66W
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral: 50°56"29.21"N 6°57"30.58"E
- Paris, Notre Dame: 48°51"10.70"N 2°21"00.10"E
- Volgograd, statue of the Motherland: 48°44"32.47"N 44°32"12.93"E
- Sydney Opera House: 33°51"24.34"S 151°12"54.17"E
- Paris: Eiffel Tower 48°51"29.54"N 2°17"39.69"E
- Paris: Palace of Versailles: 48°48"15.84"N 2°7"19.15"E
- Berlin: Reichstag: 52°31"7.20"N 13°22"33.94"E
- London: Towerbridge: 51°30"19.56"N 0°4"32.00"W
- Rio de Janeiro, Moroccan Stadium: 22°54"43.51"S 43°13"48.33"W
- Miami, Star Island: 25°46"36.92"N 80° 9"2.10"W
- Spain: Barcelona: Stadium for 120,000 people: 41°21"52.94"N 2° 9"20.71"E
- Ostankino TV tower: 55°49"10.97"N 37°36"44.50"E
- Khodynskoye Field: Former military aviation museum: 55°47"21.77"N 37°32"14.24"E
- Chernobyl contamination zone: Barge cemetery: 51°17"2.83"N 30°12"46.90"E
- Nest of debauchery, island "Ibiza" 09°01"02.50"N 79°36"44.40"W
- American Naval Base 36°57"30.16"N 76°19"45.15"W
- The Palm Jumeirah 25° 6"55.53"N 55° 8"5.18"E
- Hummingbird in the Nazca Desert 14°41"31.83"S 75° 8"56.72"W
- Kennedy assassination site 32°46"44.38"N 96°48"31.34"W
- Place of death of the legendary Titanic - 41°43"35"N 49°56"54"W
- The city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: 51°24"20.35"N, 30°03"37.34"E
Mapping services on the Internet are becoming increasingly popular among network users and various mobile applications. Such resources are created in order to quickly find a city, country, street, and determine the coordinates of a populated area. In this regard, global search engines, for example, Yandex and Google, are releasing online and offline applications that allow you to search by coordinates on the map. By entering latitude and longitude data into the required line, a person is able to accurately determine where the desired object is located.
How to find out and enter the coordinates of a place
The user must download a map of the desired country or region to a computer, laptop or gadget. Searching for coordinates and entering them to determine the location is carried out as follows:
- Open the search bar on the map.
- Select an option from the proposed categories - “food”, “hotels”, “transport”, “attractions”, “shop”, “ATM”, “parking”, etc.
- Select the desired query option to determine the coordinates. First, the address. Here you enter the city, street, house number. Secondly, the name of the place. Thirdly, any keyword. The search bar will suggest possible words.
- Select “coordinates” in the search bar and click “show on map”. The desired object will be reflected on the map.
It often happens that you need to find the location of a particular object in another country. In this case, the user first selects the country, and then searches for the location.
Determining the coordinates of an object is very simple. Having found a place on the map, the user clicks on it and looks at the bottom of the screen. The exact coordinates of the location will be indicated there. The information received is expressed in several formats:
- In decimal degrees – 21.40043, 2.1235.
- In degrees and decimal minutes – 41 24.2028.
- In degrees, minutes and seconds – 28°29’12.2″N 5°12’20.5″E.
You need to enter the existing coordinates into online maps correctly:
- The Latin letter d is replaced by a degree symbol.
- Use dots rather than commas to separate coordinates.
- First enter the latitude and then the longitude.
- Latitude is indicated in values from -90 degrees to 90 degrees.
- Longitude is indicated in the range from -180 degrees to 180 degrees.
In one of the articles we looked at the question of how to determine your coordinates and tell them to a friend. By the way, a very popular article.
Now consider the inverse problem. Let's say you received an SMS message or an email or a message from some messenger from a lost friend, in which he reports the coordinates of the place where he is and asks you to drive up to him and help him out.
What do you need to do? The answer is very simple: you need to use, for example, the application GoogleTOarts or YandexTOarts(you can download and install them using the links provided), enter the received coordinates in the search bar, find this place on the map and get directions using these applications. Let's see how it's done.
Yandex maps
1. When opening the application, the system determines your location and shows this place in the center of the map. In this case there should be GPS enabled navigation ( Geodata in the curtain).
2. In the bottom line, click Search.
3. In a new window enter in sTRoku Search the coordinates you received. You need to enter them definitely in this form : only in the form of decimal numbers (without any degrees, minutes and seconds) with a dot separator, first latitude, then longitude and with a comma between them. For example, like in the screenshot: 60.0, 30.3 Press on the on-screen keyboard Search. The found location appears in the center of the screen in the form of a mark.
4. Click below Finding a route. The application finds route options (you can choose for car or public transport) and, when the Internet is turned on, taking into account current traffic jams.
5. Select the one you need and click yellow arrow in the upper right corner or option Travel with Yandex navigator. And you go, you meet a friend who is waiting for you and says thank you. :)
Google Maps
The actions are almost the same as those described above. I provide explanatory screenshots.
1. Open Maps, enter coordinates in the search bar.
2. Click the car icon in the lower right corner. Choose the type of transport.
3. Choose one of the proposed routes. Click on the arrow icon in the lower right corner.
4. You are driving, walking, etc.
AND one more note. If in a friend’s message the coordinates are given in as a link like http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:60.0,30.3, then everything is much simpler and faster: you just need to click on the link and select Open URL. This will automatically open the Google Maps application (if it was installed by default for such links) or a browser window with maps and the desired point will be in the center. And then everything is as described above: we are looking for a route, etc.
If in the found area there are no roads, there are no pedestrian roads (for example, in a forest) and it is not possible to automatically build a route, then, seeing your position and the position of a friend on the map, you can simply go "in azimuth". :) But it is clear that a friend should in any case remain at the point whose coordinates he gave you. Warn him about this by phone or ask him for new coordinates.
Good luck to you, see you again on the pages of my site.
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The Google Maps service allows you to find a place on the map not only by keywords, but also directly by GPS coordinates. This is convenient if your navigator is not connected to your computer, but you need to show a fragment of the map on a large screen.
