alant
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Which website is your favourite, to input lat/long, enabling position to be viewed on chart/map?
Using lat/long on android tablet?
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alant
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For example 38.69 N 9.416 W, where is it & which app did you use?
RupertW
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I've never done it - what's the reason?
newtothis
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If you have an internet connection, just google it. You're just outside the marina at Cascais.
RichardS
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I'm confused by whether you're talking about websites or apps as you use both terms.
For "apps" I would use Navionics but I don't use websites.
Richard
RobbieW
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Pasting that coordinate into Google Maps works in both website and Android app form
mjcoon
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Some company "apps" seem hardly more than a shortcut or favourite for their website, and hence useless off-line...
Mike.
alant
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I'm confused by whether you're talking about websites or apps as you use both terms.
For "apps" I would use Navionics but I don't use websites.
Richard
Some people use both.
RichardS
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I know. Which are you asking about? The text of your OP does not align with the text in your post #2.
Richard
alant
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I know. Which are you asking about? The text of your OP does not align with the text in your post #2.
Richard
Correction "which app or website" did you use?
Happy now?
Aja
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I'm confused by whether you're talking about websites or apps as you use both terms.
For "apps" I would use Navionics but I don't use websites.
Richard
How are you viewing this forum then?
Donald
RichardS
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Aja
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Yes. Do you access the forum via browser or via an app?
Donald
Donald
RichardS
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Errrrr .... I access the forum on either my laptop browser or the browser on my Sony tablet ..... but this is a surreal discussion. The OP, Alan, asked "Which website is your favourite, to input lat/long, enabling position to be viewed on chart/map?" and I replied that I use the Navionics app but I don't use websites.
The method I use to access the forum is wholly irrelevant to Alan's question.
Richard
[70521]
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All an app is, is modern short language for an application. With modern computing going back to the future, in the old says we called them mainframes, all an app is doing is displaying data.
LadyInBed
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Bit of an ambiguous question imo.
Using my phone / tablet, I don't need to 'input' lat/long as the built in gps provides the info.
On those devices I use downloaded Apps - OpenCPN and MadMut Marine for marine use but for land use I have taken to OsmAnd which is an offline app where you can download up to six geographic areas for free so you don't have to be online for it to calculate a route / look up an address.
On home pc I use google maps and earth.
alant
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Built in gps, only gives the position of the tablet, not an inputted lat/long.
mjcoon
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Unless (at least in Android) you use the "mock location" feature. (See "developer options".)
Mike.
Mike.
Little Dorrit
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I use Sea Clear which can be used on Windows or Android with the appropriate app. I am not sure that's what you are asking ...if not try Google Maps or google lat and long finder - here is one of the sites I found https://www.gps-coordinates.org/.
DJE
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It seems to me that the OP has the coordinates of a point but doesn't know where it is in relation to towns, coastlines, etc. So he wants to look it up on a map. I can't think of many real-world situations when I might need to do that. Except perhaps when Solent Coastguard give the Lat and Long of something and neglect to add "This position about x miles SW of yx point."
You could find it by typing the coordinates into a chartplotter or similar app, or Google Maps or Google Earth. Or you could just move the cursor (Or the search pin in Google Maps) until it's coordinates match the required values.
At sea if it sounded close enough to worry about I would probably use a paper chart!
You could find it by typing the coordinates into a chartplotter or similar app, or Google Maps or Google Earth. Or you could just move the cursor (Or the search pin in Google Maps) until it's coordinates match the required values.
At sea if it sounded close enough to worry about I would probably use a paper chart!
