Editing Encyclopedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates (section)

==From directories/databases==
===For the US===
* The [[United States Geological Survey]]'s public domain [[GNIS|Geographical Names Information Service]] [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ database service] is extremely extensive, although riddled with errors. It also provides linkouts to topozone and terraserver so that you can tweak the results to your liking. Most of these coordinates use 
* US Census [[TIGER]]
* US Census [http://www.census.gov/geo/partnerships/bas.html Boundary and Annexation Survey]
* [http://www.hmmm.ip3.co.uk/longitude-latitude/us-zipcode.shtml Find Longitude and Latitude coordinates by US Zip Code]
* [https://gpscoordinates.info/ Search engine for GPS coordinates of latitude and longitude of the United States of America]

===For other regions===
* For placenames in Antarctica, try [http://geonames.usgs.gov/antform.html Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica]
* For placenames in Australia, try [http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/ Geoscience Australia Place Name Search]
* For placenames in Canada, try the [[Canadian Geographical Names Data Base]] (CGNDB) [http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/place-names/search/9170 Querying Canadian Geographical Names]
* For placenames in the UK, [http://www.streetmap.co.uk Streetmap.co.uk] is very useful for clicking on a precise point to show the coordinates. Near the foot of a page displaying a map is a link "Click here to convert/measure coordinates" which takes you to a "Grid Conversion Results" page with the [[WGS84]] latitude and longitude amongst other useful values.