I've been experimenting with
Google Maps and it turns out that you can go to a location directly by giving a lat/long... could not decipher the url googleMaps generates when you click "link to this page", (
solved it later) so tried it out in the edit box itself and it turns out you can specify lat/long in this form:
115 44 00 W 37 38 30 N -
or- 45.9820 N 63.5560 E -or- 45.9820 , 63.5560 ...don't need to give the tuntuna for degree, and hypehns etc, spaces will do.. you *do* need to specify W/E & N/S though...
so I googled for an
Area 51 location (what ARE all those green thingies?) and the
Baikonur Comsodrome, Kazakhastan and the
Nazca Lines in Peru using lat/long values
since a google map search for these phrases would turn up nothing, my approach was to web search for: MY_PLACE latitude longitude - and someone had always had it listed somewhere, and then map search for that lat/long
- More Area-51 lat/longs
hereWhile googling for this post, I came across
this page... are they just
bombing targets or is there something more sinister here?....
More sinister Area-51 GoogleMap images
here... God bless google & gis, sniff sniff