I’m using Google Earth a fair bit. I’ve been fascinated with turning maps into 3D views since secondary school; when we learned how to create a height versus distance cross-section from a topology map.
Google Earth has the ability to cut and paste latitude & longitude co-ords directly in, which makes it quite easy to Go To a place of interest.
A number of web sites have lat-long listings – such as this Australian Government one. This ‘only’ goes to the minute resolution, eg S 37° 52′ E 144° 54′ This is okay for big things like lakes or towns, but not fine enough for finding smaller locations. It’s just too large an area on the (Google) Earth.
Thank goodness for the newish hobby of Geocaching. Some of their sites have searchable lat-long listings down to the fraction of second. For example, this is for a point on a bridge near Walhalla in Victoria: S 37° 51.309 E 146° 25.993
Noite: if using this format in Google Earth, you have to make a simple change or two; – 37° 51.309, 146° 25.993 The ‘-‘ means South.
I’ve found a few other sites that also have Victorian/Australian listings.
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