<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt">How about using Yahoo!'s API... please have a look<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html">http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html</a></span><br><br>If one can locate his location on the yahoo map latitude and longitude values can be directly copied from the browsers URL. find your location double click on the spot and have your lat and long values ready in the URL..<br><div> </div>Amit Pundir<br>+919481778789<br>mca@nitc<br><br><div>Registered Linux User #471421<br>Fedora-India ambassador<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://thebuggz.blogspot.com/">http://thebuggz.blogspot..com/</a></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <bochecha@fedoraproject.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 13 July, 2009 8:00:00 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ambassadors] Ambassadors map is now online.<br></font><br>> I just think why don't we put the exact location instead of country name on<br>> Fedora ambassadors map. My current latitude/longitude is set to Petaling<br>> Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.<br><br>Because mapping the coordinates to a location is hard, unless you have<br>a gigantic table listing each city in the world and the geographic<br>area it covers, so that you can find in which geographic area the<br>marker is.<br><br>The country is actually extracted from another field in your FAS<br>account, so a simple solution would be to add a new field to specify<br>the city, another field for the region, another field for......<br><br>Or, you can zoom in the map and look at the city name :)<br><br><br>----------<br><br>Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)<br><br>--<br>Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www..redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a><br></div></div></div></div><br> <hr size=1></hr> Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_2/*http://cricket.yahoo.com" target="_blank"> Click here</a>.</body></html>