Non-USA Lat/Lon Servers
Jeff Hunt (jhunt@radix.net)
Wed, 5 Nov 97 10:19:29
Hello All,
I've added a link on the iridium.html page on the vso servers for the
coordinate locator provided by Ed Cannon which is described below.
Thanks Ed!
Jeff Hunt <jeff@satellite.eu.org>
Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html
--- On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 01:28:37 -0600 Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>
wrote in part:
>Here's an alternative (non-map) way of finding coordinates of a
>non-USA location (if non-USA browsers have access to it, which I
>don't know):
>
> http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
>
>> The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery
>> and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature
>> names. ...
>>
>> Select button to access Query Form . ...
>
>You enter a locality name and country code and get a second button
>with a count of hits. If it's too many, you can go back and refine
>the search using various parameters. I entered the country Malta
>and something like "Capital of Country" and got 3 hits, which proved
>to be three of the same thing with the name in different languages.
>You can also just enter a *range of coordinates*, which I tried for
>the area around Brussels, Belgium. This database has over 3,000,000
>geographic names, apparently all with lat/long!