Locales: Geographic Coordinates
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The freeware Kalendis computer program for Windows allows setup of user-defined locales (UDLs).
If you want to manage large collections of UDLs then the following Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with VBA macros (UDLs.xls for older versions, or UDLs.xlsm macro-enabled workbook for newer versions 2007+) allow the user to fetch all UDLs from Kalendis, then you can sort or otherwise arrange the UDLs, optionally use additional worksheets, and send them back to Kalendis. UDLs are stored in the VBA section of the Windows Registry, therefore other programs such as LibreOffice Calc and Apache OpenOffice Calc won’t work, since they don’t support accessing the Windows Registry.
The following servers may help Kalendis users collect locale coordinates:
| Logo or Company | Title and Description | internet URL |
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Canadian Geographic Names Natural Resources Canada |
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/maps-tools-and-publications/maps/geographical-names-canada/10786 |
| Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. | Falling Rain Global Gazetteer | http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ |
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Geographic Encyclopedia for the world (but coordinates are included for less than a majority of locales) | http://www.placesnamed.com/ |
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Getty Research Institute Thesaurus of Geographic Names (for World) | https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn |
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Google Maps provides quick and easy mapping as well as satellite and hybrid views for many areas of the world, but gives no coordinates. | https://maps.google.com/ If you know the coordinates then use: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=lat,long&spn=0.1,0.1&t=k |
| .. replacing lat,long with the known coordinates, in degrees with decimal fractions (positive latitude = north of equator, positive longitude = east of prime meridian) | ||
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Latitude and Longitude of Places in India | http://www.indiapress.org/horoscope/ (skip the Astrology section, go directly to the bottom of the page below the horizontal line) |
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency: Geographic Names Server (GNS) for the World |
https://geonames.nga.mil/geonames/GNSHome/welcome.html |
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U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Gazetteer for USA | https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |
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USA Census Bureau TIGERweb (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) | https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerwebmain/TIGERweb_main.html |