What is it?

Getting the latitude and longitude at a point on the map was a rather tricky thing most of the time for me, as handily ready programs were unable to display the coordinates in various forms to the user. And even when they displayed them, calculating from one format to another on the fly was not always the most convenient way - this latlon.at was born. Latlon.at is now grown into more then just displaying a coordinate on a worldmap with different map layers, but also is able to give you the coordinate of landmarks, places, cities and much more - enabling you to not only see that locations coordinates in latitude and longitude in numerous formats, but to also share those locations via geoURI format with others. They on the other hand, can simply enter the geoURI in a webbrowser and are pointed directly to that point you were giving them via the geoURI on the map displayed for them. Sharing can be done by simply giving someone a link like http://latlon.at?geo:51.50074,-0.12453;u=15 to point them to Big Ben in London or use numerous ways, ranging from twitter, facebook, evernote, email and much much more to tell them there where.

I provide this website, tool and all services contained on a "as-is" bases. If you like it, feel free to send me feedback or share it with friends. Also feedback, bugs, and ideas for new functions are welcome.

How to use it?

Position the crosshair in the middle of the map by swiping the map around. Zoom in or zoom out with the + and - button or use pinch to zoom. You cen read the current latitude and longitude at the crosshairs position.

Use the my location button to center the crosshair over your approximate location. A circle will show the appriximate accuracy of your location. Notice the accuracy can variy in precision based on your mode of access. Best results are achieved with location enabled browsers, using GPS or WiFi Mac addresses, followed by GSM or UMTS connections. Least precise is a location provided by your IP address.

If you have continuous tracking enabled in your settings, the my location button is used to toggle the continuous tracking on and off .

Share the geoURI of the latitude and longitude at the crosshair of your maps position by clicking the share button. You can eigther use the displayed QR code to share the geoURI directly or use the displayed geoURI in the format http://latlon.at?geo:<latitude>,<longitude>;u=<zoom> to point others directly to that location on the map. Syndication that geoURI is also possible by clicking on one of the suggested services below, where you can share that location with others. More services are available by clicking on the +.

Enter a location name, place or landmark in the textfield to search for it via . Your search result is displayed by a new marker on the map, cendered around your result. By clicking on the marker your can see the detailed information as well as share the location of your search result or remove that search result from your map.

In the settings menu, accessible via the button, you can change your default display coordinate type or the display size of the coordinates. Choose the format or size of your liking there. If your browser supports continuous tracking, you can enable or disable continuous tracking by choosing 'continuous' in the tracking mode dropdown. Tracking information is only held in your browser and not stored.

Copyrights and Notices

Lat Lon At uses metadata and map tiles of the OpenStreetMap project which is © by the OpenStreetMap and contributors under CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Slippymap and geocoding api, as well as the sattelite and Google Maps roadmap layer are provided and © by Google and thirt-party suppliers as applicable.

HTML DOM abstraction library is jQuery which is © by the jQuery Foundation under the terms the MIT license.

Link syndication is provided by AddThis. AddThis Terms of Service and informations about add-choice based targeting opt-out apply.

Fallback link syndication is provided by gloo@ URL shortener API, © GlooAt.

This site uses Google Analytics to monitor user flows and device statistics. Google Analytics Terms of Service apply. If you don't agree, simply forbid scripts of the source google-analytics.com

This website detects and uses your devices location only by your request when clicking the my location button.

All settings of this website are solely stored in cookies on your device. No personal preferences whatsoever are stored or used by the server of latlon.at

All graphics and content on this site, as well as the framework and dynamic abstraction library is © by Jenniffer Walter if not stated otherwise. You may use, share or link this tool as long as you respect and give credit, where credit is due.

Contribute

You can give us feedback, report bugs, input new ideas or simply vote for those others contributed so far by following this link...

Add to the crowdsourcing community by registering with OpenStreetmap and help improve on map data. It's rather easy - so give it a try!

History

v1.6

Removed mapnik from map sources, as they have deprecated direct tile api.
Fix for the AddThis linrary.
Fix for sharing location links.
Service is provided via HTTPS now - Thanks to Lets Encrypt.

v1.5

Better error text handling - avoid undefined.
jQuery framework updated.
New api version uses internal database for geocoding locations.

v1.4

Events on crosshair will not block actions on the map anymore.
Config now stored in extensible structure for easier further development.
Fixed draggable circles.
Fixed map center change when resizing or tilting the site.
Inline image data to minimize connections needed for loading.
Problem with involuntary escaping of URLs syndicated via AddThis is unsolvable due to a bug in the AddThis framework.
Geocoding a location via query implemented.
Continuous position tracking and visualization with better triangulated metrics.
Localization with initial languages for en, de.

v1.3

Added copyright notices for tile map sources other then Google on the map layer itself. As this was deprecated since Google maps API v3.
Dynamically change from notice to notification of copyright, based on display geometry and dpi.
Fully dynamic framework of handling user and device events.
Added IP geolocating service as fallback when the device does not support HTML5 location detection.
Added more detailed copyrights, helptexts and history.

v1.2

Allow multiple search results, sharing and individual removing of result markers.
Dynamic number of addthis shares, based on available space in the dialogs.
New event handling framework, more flexible for further developement.
Major framework overhaul as well as streamlining.
Integrated in the littledragons developement framework.

v1.1

Addthis share syndication with fallback when addthis is adblocked.
Dynamic dialog library with resizing and orientation changes added.
Added own QR service for easy sharing geoURIs.

v1.0

First official release with public domain.
Initial setup with open tile map sourced in the Google maps API v3.

v0.9

Initial setup of dynamic device adaptation framework based on jQuery.
Initial prototyping of Google maps API v3 integrated in the dynamic device adaptation framework.