Geolocations...maps...where the h*ll are you?

Recently, in another forum, I asked some questions about which software
made provision for geolocations. To explain - where places are on the
globe, usually stored as latitudes and longitudes, or GPS co-ordinates.

The point of all this was that, with web-search Map now easy to link to, I
found a use for geolocations, as I can now display a map of where events
took place. If you don't know where Knockanalban or Thistle Dump is,
this can give a great sense of distance, or connection between families.

But this meant that I needed to build a small table of
locations...which, going back one step, meant that I needed to find
places. Ah...what a journey of discovery that was (or rather, wasn't).

I am amazed and dumbfounded at just how many places assume you know
where they are. AAA shire, YYY cemetery..the list goes on! I assume they
know where they are, but as for sharing that...pffft! A small map or
diagram would be of great help.

Kerry Raymond...

Well, in order to do our small bit for geo-coding, (almost) all of our
cemetery headstone photos collections have GPS data for the cemetery in both
numeric form and also as links into web-search Earth and web-search Maps.

Here's an example:

If anyone wants any help in setting up their WWW site to do anything
similar, please ask.

So, please, if you lob onto a web site about somewhere, and it just says
it is in Australia or Greenland, use the "contact us" button to suggest
that they be a bit more informative.

End of rant... :-)