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From: "DAVID HORTON" <>
Subject: Re: [NSW-ORANGEBATHURST] Location of CURRAJONG BILLABONG
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:15:07 +1000
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To get a map of the area corresponding to a lattitude/longitude provided by
Geosciences Australia (or by the state government place name searches)

Go to GoogleMaps http://maps.google.com/maps

Enter the lattitude/longitude from Geosciences Australia placing a "+" in
front of the longitude e.g. for the result
:
CURRAJONG CREEK QLD STRM (Water Courses) Official -24 52 150 50 -

:

enter into the GoogleMap search window
-24 52 +150 50


BTW: The resolution is not that fine that you'd be able to easily locate a
homestead from the degrees and minutes, you needs seconds too.
e.g. Upper Freestone Cemetery (near Warwick)
Latitude -28° 8' 9", Longitude 152° 11' 55"
http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Upper_Freestone/GoogleEarth.html

If you enter into googlemap without seconds you won't find the cemetery. (It
is off to the east south east).

David Horton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Booth" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [NSW-ORANGEBATHURST] Location of CURRAJONG BILLABONG


> Carl,
>
> Thanks. That's a good tip. I hadn't seen it before. For anyone else the
> URL is http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
>
> It has 274,000 placenames. Unfortunately, it's so precise you almost
> need GPS to use it.
>
> I still need a bit of help to translate the latitude and longitude to a
> current day map. It looks to be somewhere north of Cowra.
>
> Peter
>
>
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