Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Watertown MA, USA
Posts: 15

I want to add a few cities to the World time app, and it wants latitude and longitude coordinates (presumably so that it can locate the city on the map). Does anyone know of a website (or other device) that I can use to get the lat/longs for a given city?

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

Go here: http://zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm

Check box the "Latitude and Longitude", and type in the city name.

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

If you're good with a very small map and a stylus, you can just poke the city you want. Try it. I don't know how many cities are in there, but just pressing the city on the map puts it in for you, and I be the one you want would be there.

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 18

I don't think the search engine on the zipcode page works for places outside of the US. I'd be interested, as well, in an international longitude/latitude server.

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Monroe, Michigan, USA
Posts: 244

Try a world atlas at your local library. (My wife is a librarian, so that's our default answer.)

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
Posts: 717

Maybe this will help: http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong.html

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 21

Not sure about world cities, but the US Gazeteer from the Census Bureau has loads of US entries in it. The most convenient interface (for me) is the unix command line client to the dict server at dict.org. Or just use the website:
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=D...abase=gazetteer

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Posts: 4

I've used indo.com's "How far is it?" page for quite a few years.
http://www.indo.com/distance/

(you'll have to put in two cities, but it's usually a very quick query)

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Wouldn't a globe work?