Browncoats Around the World Map.
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 17:19
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Originally posted by CBY:
Damn, it made me an North West African
It's not so easy to find the right values. Most pages only work for the USA.
Yeah. And, really, for our purpose here on FFF.NET, it needn't be since it's all in fun. Besides, the coordinates derived from geocoding isn't very accurate.
I don't have a GPS, nor a GPS feature on my cell phone, but if you do, I would like to see how accurate those coordinates are when plotted on the Google map.
Haken
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UK browncoats, you can get your latitude and longitude by going to www.streetmap.co.uk.
All you need to do is enter your postcode, click on "search", then when your map comes up scroll to the blue box near the bottom which says:
"This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey". In this box you can click the link which says "cick here to convert"... and you getthe lat and long.
In Haken's map you need to enter the lat and long that are in brackets, not the bit that says "N.." and "W.."
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This is an excellent idea!
I've added my name to the map. It's kinda weird and cool to be able to see all the towns and cities in your area, and pin point your exact location.
Thanks for helping out us U.K Browncoats too Britchick!
And, thanks for submitting the map Haken! This is an excellent addition to the site. 
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Haken, it's so cool! Mine came up right the first time.
Hey- now I know where you got your tan!
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This is very cool... but it keeps stickin' me on the wrong continent...
I'll keep tryin' tho...
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Hmmm, Antarctica for some of us?
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I love it! I'm right there in the middle of England 
Thanks Britchick for the help, to be a bit quicker Uk Browncoats can just go here and enter their Post Code at the bottom:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=407658,25040
0&type=OSGrid
Then it's the numbers in brackets for Lat and Long
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Eventually I was able to leave Africa
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Horray for me, although it shows me living in a gutter across my street.
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