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Apostolos · September 8, 2005

Hi to all..
I have istalled the google earth and im trying to see how can i use it with smugmug "Map this.." feature..
Lets say that i want to map Athens(Greece)
I search for Athens in google earth..Where i can find the Latitude ,Longitude and Altitude for every location tha im interested of?

I searched the forum but due to my bad english it was difficult to understand..
If this is not a trouble please inform me..

My best regards to all
Apostolos:thumb

Richard · September 8, 2005

Apostolos wrote:

.Where i can find the Latitude ,Longitude and Altitude for every location tha im interested of?

Apostolos,

Google seems to be too busy dealing with the American market to bother with much of the rest of the world. They'll certainly get around to it eventually

. In the meantime, I have been using Multimap.com . Don't know about Greece, but it works well for Spain. One drawback is that you have to manually enter the longitude and latitude into Smugmug. :cry But for now that's the best one can do.

Cheers,

Apostolos · September 8, 2005

rsinmadrid wrote:

Apostolos,

Google seems to be too busy dealing with the American market to bother with much of the rest of the world. They'll certainly get around to it eventually . In the meantime, I have been using Multimap.com . Don't know about Greece, but it works well for Spain. One drawback is that you have to manually enter the longitude and latitude into Smugmug. :cry But for now that's the best one can do.

Cheers,

Dear rsinmadrid

Thank you very much for the advice and the suggestion..

But what exactly do you insert?Which values?
Regards..

Apostolos · September 8, 2005

im getting the error "sorry but we dont have imagery at this zoom level..for this region.Try zooming out for a broader look.."

wxwax

tibu · September 8, 2005

Google Earth
Hi

You can use google earth to find locations all over the world. In some areas you have high resolutions photos and I for example could locate exactly my house here in Helsinki and get the exact coordinates

Regards
Carlos Quiroz

Apostolos · September 8, 2005

tibu wrote:

Hi

You can use google earth to find locations all over the world. In some areas you have high resolutions photos and I for example could locate exactly my house here in Helsinki and get the exact coordinates

Regards
Carlos Quiroz

Yes carlos i know that

but how can i find the Latitude ,Longitude and Altitude for every location thaT im interested???and to able to use it with smugmug map it feature?:):
Thanks

Andy · September 8, 2005

Apostolos wrote:

Yes carlos i know that
but how can i find the Latitude ,Longitude and Altitude for every location thaT im interested???and to able to use it with smugmug map it feature?:):
Thanks

yasou, apostolos

it's really simple

just type in "athens greece" into google earth. you'll get this picture, and you can float your mouse over the exact location you want. the lat/long is shown on the lower left of the google earth window:

some more information here

good luck, with your khArtis tis elAdhas

enter the lat / long (circled in red in the above screen capture) into the screen you're presented with when you click "edit geography" under your photograph in smugmug (in this example photo, it's right below the arrows that i show)

tibu · September 9, 2005

What I do
Is to put a placemark into the exact position I want, then i can copy it to the clipboard and the placemark's data is copied as xml and you get the exact number. For instance, this is the placemar for my house

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Mi Casa

24.94931820882063
60.18814520800841
382.1472498006801
-1.212569696305949e-010
0.008082969433355725

root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317

24.94733903055457,60.18841469109108,0

And in the line

24.94733903055457,60.18841469109108,0

You have the very exact location

Additionally I wrote a script for IMatch that takes this xml and read the locations into the IMatch database

Carlos

Apostolos · September 9, 2005

Dear andy kalimera..
Eyxaristo for your help again.

The only problem is that when im trying to find on the map of Athens the lat/long is shown on the lower left of the google earth window in the screenshot that you provide me,i m seeing a diferent indication..I thing its north.east,west etc..

im i doing something wrong??

Euxaristo Andy

BigAl · September 9, 2005

Apostolos, I had a similar problem. To convert to decimal coordinates, divide the minutes by 60 and add it to the degrees, divide the seconds by 3600 and add it to the degrees (or divide the seconds by 60 and add it to the minutes, then divide the minutes by 60 and add it to the degrees).

To get the right sign, E of greenwich is positive, W is negative;
North of the equator is positive, south is negative.

HTH

BigAl · September 9, 2005

I've just installed google earth...

much easier method:
Tools>Options>View
Lat/Lon > set to degrees.

Apostolos · September 9, 2005

Al you are really big!

I would like to thank you all for your time and your precious help...
My warmest regards

joffun · September 9, 2005

Apostolos wrote:

Hi to all..
I have istalled the google earth and im trying to see how can i use it with smugmug "Map this.." feature..
Lets say that i want to map Athens(Greece)
I search for Athens in google earth..Where i can find the Latitude ,Longitude and Altitude for every location tha im interested of?

I searched the forum but due to my bad english it was difficult to understand..
If this is not a trouble please inform me..

My best regards to all
Apostolos

If you have Microsoft ENcarta then you can use the lat/long coordinates from the maps - not as detailed as Google Eart but at least it covers the whole world!!

garyjwood · October 4, 2005

BigAl wrote:

Apostolos, I had a similar problem. To convert to decimal coordinates, divide the minutes by 60 and add it to the degrees, divide the seconds by 3600 and add it to the degrees (or divide the seconds by 60 and add it to the minutes, then divide the minutes by 60 and add it to the degrees).

To get the right sign, E of greenwich is positive, W is negative;
North of the equator is positive, south is negative.

HTH

In Google Earth, choose "Options" from the "Tools" menu. The "Google Earth Options" dialog box will appear. The first tab, "View", has a box at the lower left called "Rendering".

Here you can set "Lat/Lon" to "Degrees", which will show the decimal degrees that Smugmug wants. You can also set the "Elevation" to "Meters/Kilometers".

(Here in Canada, we use metres and kilometres

)

A degree of latitude is 111.313 km. Therefore, if you only enter the first 5 decimal places (e.g. 37.98335, 23.73329), you will be within 10 meters of your desired location. That's about 1/10 of a football field in the U.S.A.

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