Comments on: GPS Coordinate Apps: Find Your GPS Location

By: GISGeography

GISGeography — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:40:19 +0000

In reply to Ibrahim Abdu.

One way to find lat/long coordinates is by using Google Maps – https://www.google.com/maps/

Right-click anywhere on the map. There will be a pop-up with the latitude and longitude coordinates that will be shown.

By: Ibrahim Abdu

Ibrahim Abdu — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:17:50 +0000

I want to take the longitude and latitude for a particular place

By: Mammy Camelia

Mammy Camelia — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:12:57 +0000

GPS location

By: Vladimir Vega III

Vladimir Vega III — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:10:47 +0000

I type coordinates in decimal format in Google maps, and it says not found. Apple maps on my friend’s iPhone brings it up, no problem. what gives, Google maps???

By: GISGeography

GISGeography — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:20:52 +0000

In reply to Colleen. One way to do this is by using Google Earth. Try adding a placemark to your view. Once you do, there will be a pop-up of the lat/long coordinates. You can move it around and it will update the coordinates where you drag and drop the pin.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:43:46 +0000

I need to find coordinates off a survey map no one will help can I do those

By: Mahmood Jaafaru Zakari

Mahmood Jaafaru Zakari — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:21:36 +0000

Very good apps

By: kps

kps — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:56:38 +0000

This is some good info. Unfortunately, method #1 doesn’t work for me. Pressing/holding on the map does indeed show the coordinates but the moment you touch that field, the coordinates become an address. So, it is impossible to copy the coordinates to the clipboard so that you can do something else useful with them.

By: Gale S

Gale S — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:00:14 +0000

Depends on your needed level of mapping accuracy, and the specific app’s ability to support proper geomatics and geographic datums. [GPS/GNSS technology itself works in global systems like WGS84. Most folks want to use x, y coordinates in a local projected map system (like UTM or State Plane coordinates in the USA). Keeping everything in Geographic coordinates in a global datum via any app is simpler to write – but does often not meet full user needs. Any ‘favorite’ app needs to keep true user needs requirements in mind.]
It can be thought of much like photography: a point-and-shoot fixed focus disposable camera and a professional high-end SRL camera can both take perfectly fine pictures — but do not truly offer the same output. Users want/need the ‘right tool for the right job’ and professional GNSS apps deliver much more than general ‘consumer’ ones do. A true understanding of the mathematical concepts (as written about in your Articles on Geodesy and Coordinate References Systems) must be coded correctly into any reliable GPS Coordinate App. Professional GNSS hardware suppliers worldwide can help anyone needing true high-accuracy GPS locations via state-of-the-practice workflows and apps. (Consumer device GPS navigation is inherently limited in its accuracy and precision.)