# Show coordinates on a map

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 16, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565 "2004-02-16T22:47:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565/1 "2004-02-16T22:47:09Z")

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Hi,

I’m looking for a site where I can enter _any_ valid latitude/longitude and get a map centered around those coordinates — like on [TopoZone](http://www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp), which unfortunately doesn’t seem to work for a European datum.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565/2 "2004-02-16T23:59:17Z")

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Try [this](http://www.confluence.org/search.php). The search results page has three map links. I don’t know how wide their coverage is, but I successfully tested lat/longs in Austria and the Czech Republic.

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**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565/3 "2004-02-17T00:20:12Z")

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The MapQuest link works perfect. Once you know how to do it, it’s pretty easy. But they don’t tell you this on the MapQuest site. 😕

```auto

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=+12.34&longitude=-56.78

```

(Zoom out… there’s not much there.)

Thanks, Ringo.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-coordinates-on-a-map/229565/4 "2004-02-17T04:27:00Z")

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You’re welcome. And you’re right about Mapquest being somewhat obtuse about the ability to access lat/long locations.

And thanks for using “datum.”