Ingo found a site that can take the name of a place (town, city,
country[region]) and get a lat/lon (if it finds the place). Seems to
work well.

 http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query

Enter the Name and select a region from the list and send that. Never
mind the rest of the page, unless you have other plans.
For the U.S.A. try this instead:

 http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html

Just enter Feature Name (city, town, etc.) and the State then Send. A
list will appear showing the coordinate of all related things.


Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> 
> Marco Bonetti schrieb in Nachricht <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
> 
> >One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
> >long/lat
> >converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
> 
> This is not always very accurate of course. This page said my ISP is in
> Bonn, Germany. This is more than 100 miles away from my location. Some
> nationwide ISPs like T-Online or AOL might even be off by much more.
> 
> But if you really don't have a clue about your Lat/Lon values, it is better
> than nothing. Ain't the web a great thing?
> 
> --
> Rudy Velthuis

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