Return to the table of contentsHOW DO I FIND MY LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE?
If you do not have GPS receiver, there are two web sites that will give you the latitude and longitude for any address within the United States. These are: Testdrive Eagle Geocoding from Etak/Tele Microsoft’s TerraServer The data are in decimal degrees. To convert to degrees/minutes/seconds, multiply the fractional part by 60 (to get minutes and fractional minutes), then multiply the fractional Minutes by 60 to get seconds (and fractional seconds). For example: Ohio EPAs Central District Office is located at 3232 Alum Creek Drive Columbus, Ohio Latitude 39.902529, Longitude -82.928945 The following shows how this decimal format is converted to degree/minute/second format.
