Need your latitude/longitude but don't have a gps?

[KB2GOM]

You can look your address up here: Get the GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) of an address or place and get directions to/from that place

 

[ecps92]

Or there are plenty of "Smaht Phone Apps"

You can look your address up here: Get the GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) of an address or place and get directions to/from that place

 

[KB2GOM]

Or there are plenty of "Smaht Phone Apps"

Never thought of that. My mobile is so intellectually compromised, it barely makes phone calls.

 

[wtp]

or just right click on your house in google maps...

 

[AC0RV]

or google earth and point your cursor over your house. Look for the GPS Coordinates in lower right corner of the screen.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

I just drag out and unroll the old Topo maps or the Gazetteer, grab a "Jiffy Stick" and a pencil.

 

[TexTAC]

The compass pre-installed on iPhones will give you gps coords on the bottom of the screen.

 

[ecps92]

Even my old Nextel Flip phone could display Location
or just type in your address Get Lat Long from Address Convert Address to Coordinates

Never thought of that. My mobile is so intellectually compromised, it barely makes phone calls.

 

[KB2GOM]

Even my old Nextel Flip phone could display Location
or just type in your address Get Lat Long from Address Convert Address to Coordinates

I just searched my old LG flip phone, apparently has no location info.

 

[trentbob]

My understanding was when you put a zip code in it automatically puts longitude and latitude in the radio for the ZIP code?

 

[Jay911]

My understanding was when you put a zip code in it automatically puts longitude and latitude in the radio for the ZIP code?

If you're talking about location enabled scanners like the Uniden models, it takes the lat/long of the center of the zipcode or postal code, but for what it's worth, there's a significant shortcoming when it comes to Canadian postal codes.

Rather than use the full six-digit Canadian postal code, it uses just the first three digits. This would be akin to using only the first two digits of a US zip code, I think. It only generally locates the area. As an example, my postal code in Canada begins with T0L. That prefix covers most of the southwestern corner of Alberta, over 29,000 square kilometers (11,000+ square miles). I'm lucky enough that I'm almost in the center of the area, so when I enter T0L into a scanner, the location isn't too far off. But there are people 90 miles north, south, and east of me that are also in T0L, and if they enter that postal code, they'll get scanner data for my area, not theirs. If they used my full zip code, it would barely be a 200 square mile area.

In all fairness to Uniden, it's entirely possible that they weren't able to obtain a database of centerpoints for the full postal codes, only the broad sorting area codes. Still, it doesn't work as well as people might think. Knowing and using the precise lat and long is always the best solution.

 

[zerg901]

Was thinking this was about a new SDR app that could triangulate locations off known FM, AM, land mobile, NWR, etc xmitters

 

[KK2DOG]

I use the QTHLocator app for my phone.