GPS link to goggle maps.com

Question

Is there a way to LINK  the GPS to the profiles to goggle.maps?    of course that have "Cemeteries"

Comments

See also: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Halstead-463 . mapcarta.com also works :)

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Cool we need more GPS locations in WIkiTree.... doing genealogy 2016 is = using GPS... and mark houses graves etc.. so other people find them....

I have played around at WikiData and they support adding coordinates for burial places ==> you can easily mark all gravestones and do a search and display the location on a map....

See blog People buried on q252312... 

Answer 1

If you type the latitude and longitude into the search box on Google maps it will display the location with a pin. You can then click onto the share button to get a URL which you can use. Here is an example to try at my local cemetery for the grave of Lena Anderson (Holderson-1):

-38.3466181,145.7614282

Similarly it can be done on Openstreetmaps. Here is the URL for Openstreetmaps.org:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=-38.3466181%2C145.7614282#map=18/-38.34662/145.76143

Comments

Generally GPS co-ordinates gathered by most user devices are only accurate to several metres, so they wont show exact locations of a grave, just a general location.

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You are right, the accuracy of my cell phone is not good. So, I use the geomatics system of the city where the monument is located (when possible). Otherwise, I have a map of the cemetery to get the exact coordinates by deduction.

Answer 2

Thank you,  all  i figured out a way that is easy to access...

SEE.. Knox-1926  for  "GPS map [------]  takes em right to it.