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ksarasara.
Add yourself to the giant LJ map! See where your friends are and let them know where you are.
If you want, you can use Google Earth1 to get your lattitude and longitude. You'll have to download and install the program, and it might run a little slowly (depending on your system and connections), but it's free and fun to play with. Just put your address into the search bar and hover your mouse over it.
You can also right-click on it, choose "copy," then paste the text somewhere. It'll be a bunch of code, but at the bottom of that code will be your coordinates. (Conviniently placed between "coordinates" tags.) The first number is the If the original search didn't get your location quite right, you can click the little pushpin button at the bottom right to place a marker. For some reason, the first number is longitude. If there's a negative sign in front of it, it's West longitude. If not, it's East longitude (West and East are determined by your position relative to the International Date Line2, which is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean). The second number is your lattitude. If there's a negative sign in front if it, you are South of the equator. If not, you're North.
Of course, you could just use the map provided on the page. Make a guess from the world map, click a tab to go to a map of a specific continent, or if you live in or near a major city, you can search that way.
1 Yes, I'm reluctantly learning to rely on the evil Google monster. *sigh* I suppose, though, that since Mapquest got taken over by Microsoft, I'm really only switching to the lesser of two evils. At least, that's the way I'd like to think about it.
2 Which I always think sounds like it should be a 1-900 number...
ksarasara.Add yourself to the giant LJ map! See where your friends are and let them know where you are.
If you want, you can use Google Earth1 to get your lattitude and longitude. You'll have to download and install the program, and it might run a little slowly (depending on your system and connections), but it's free and fun to play with. Just put your address into the search bar and hover your mouse over it.
You can also right-click on it, choose "copy," then paste the text somewhere. It'll be a bunch of code, but at the bottom of that code will be your coordinates. (Conviniently placed between "coordinates" tags.) The first number is the If the original search didn't get your location quite right, you can click the little pushpin button at the bottom right to place a marker. For some reason, the first number is longitude. If there's a negative sign in front of it, it's West longitude. If not, it's East longitude (West and East are determined by your position relative to the International Date Line2, which is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean). The second number is your lattitude. If there's a negative sign in front if it, you are South of the equator. If not, you're North.
Of course, you could just use the map provided on the page. Make a guess from the world map, click a tab to go to a map of a specific continent, or if you live in or near a major city, you can search that way.
1 Yes, I'm reluctantly learning to rely on the evil Google monster. *sigh* I suppose, though, that since Mapquest got taken over by Microsoft, I'm really only switching to the lesser of two evils. At least, that's the way I'd like to think about it.
2 Which I always think sounds like it should be a 1-900 number...