How to get long/lat coordinates on MS Virtual Earth?
Wed, 02/20/2008 - 11:16pm
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Last weekend I discovered Microsoft Virtual Earth. The resolution of its satellite imagery is very high (esp compared to Google Earth's), and its 3D views are a huge help in identifying addresses. After using Virtual Earth for a few days, I've also concluded that it returns more precise address locations than Google Earth.
The only downside is that I haven't been able to figure out a way to see long/lat coordinates on Virtual Earth screens. Google Earth shows the long/lat of the cursor position. But not Virtual Earth.
Does anyone know of a way to display long/lat coordinates on MS Virtual Earth?
CaseyGuy wrote: Does anyone
Does anyone know of a way to display long/lat coordinates on MS Virtual Earth?
I don't think it does. There is nothing on the help about it and I tried it by signing in as well. Sometimes when you send an email, it will put the Lat/Long in the URL but that is all.
CaseyGuy wrote:Does anyone
Does anyone know of a way to display long/lat coordinates on MS Virtual Earth?
Go to share and copy to clipboard. The Lat/Lon will be embedded in the link. Just paste the link in Excel and strip out all the garbage. Not ideal, but it does work.
Tom
Long/lat in MS Virtual Earth
Thanks very much, poitom. That works. I'll try to write a macro to strip out the garbage characters.
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Getting Long/Lat Coordinates from MS Virtual Earth
I was able to write a macro in MS Word that pulls out long/lat coordinates from the "link" that MS Virtual Earth generates from an address.
Along the way, I discovered something else that is quite useful:
1) On the Virtual Earth image, right-click the object whose coordinates you want.
2) On the resulting drop-down menu, select "Center map here."
3) That creates coordinates for whatever you right-clicked, and embeds them into the link that Virtual Earth pastes to the Clipboard.
I'd be happy to share the macro, if anyone would be interested. But I don't know how one shares a macro.
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