GPS COORDINATES CONVERTER
We were on our way to the gym after watching "just one episode" of a J.J. Abrams TV series when I showed Mr. F. www.feedburner.com. This became a several hour journey into the land of the yet to be known as we both tried to understand RSS feeds better.
We saw the "Optimize Your Feed" tab and looked at "Geotag Your Feed." We remembered that Master D., our nephew had shown us Google Earth, which we downloaded, a very cool program I recommend. Get Google Earth.
We found our very building, on the Google Earth free version at that! Our closest intersection has only appeared on our English version of the Shanghai Tourist Map since we've moved here -- we're not really "in the burbs," just 10 minutes by cab or bicycle to a subway or light rail station. We live just outside a ring road, which probably defines "Greater Metro Shanghai." What is a never-ending marvel to behold is that there are no less than 30 new high rise buildings within a mile area across from where our windows face.
Once we found our GPS coordinates, we found that when we entered them, we were requested to get values in decimals. Now this is new territory for us.
After a long web search, Mr. F. found a site, "Sanidumps.com" where there was a very easy to use converter and we were able to do this!
We don't actually see anything new that would indicate this information on this site, nor in the html for the template, but we had a lot of fun eating dinner (we ordered in) and trying not to get the computer greasy while we worked.
Later, we evaluated the wisdom of putting out our location on the Internet.
We saw the "Optimize Your Feed" tab and looked at "Geotag Your Feed." We remembered that Master D., our nephew had shown us Google Earth, which we downloaded, a very cool program I recommend. Get Google Earth.
We found our very building, on the Google Earth free version at that! Our closest intersection has only appeared on our English version of the Shanghai Tourist Map since we've moved here -- we're not really "in the burbs," just 10 minutes by cab or bicycle to a subway or light rail station. We live just outside a ring road, which probably defines "Greater Metro Shanghai." What is a never-ending marvel to behold is that there are no less than 30 new high rise buildings within a mile area across from where our windows face.
Once we found our GPS coordinates, we found that when we entered them, we were requested to get values in decimals. Now this is new territory for us.
After a long web search, Mr. F. found a site, "Sanidumps.com" where there was a very easy to use converter and we were able to do this!
We don't actually see anything new that would indicate this information on this site, nor in the html for the template, but we had a lot of fun eating dinner (we ordered in) and trying not to get the computer greasy while we worked.
Later, we evaluated the wisdom of putting out our location on the Internet.
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