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SwopNet Waypoint DataBank
Welcome to the web's largest collection of Global
Positioning System (GPS) waypoints
and databases of waypoints. A waypoint is the latitude and longitude of a
significant location. This information is useful to travelers who own GPS
handheld navigation systems,
which is more and more of us.
Here are some GPS articles
by Heath Allison.
Note: It should not be necessary to say it, but
these waypoints come from many different sources and their accuracy cannot be
guaranteed.
| International
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GARtrip Collection
| scroll most of the way down, select "Collections of Waypoint."
Has pointers to numerous zipped files.
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International Waypoint Registry
| rather light on content right now, but has potential. Depends upon
submissions by users.
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MapBlast
| worldwide latitudes and longitudes.
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MapQuest
| how to determine lat & lon from MapQuest pages
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Marine Planner
| lat/lon information for boaters
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Microsoft Encarta World Atlas
| commercial product. Click on any map, reportedly it tells you the lat
and lon.
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National Imagery and
Mapping Agency
| coordinates for everything in the world, but learning to use their site
takes time.
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Nature
Reserve Waypoint Project
| a cooperative venture to collect waypoints of junctions inside any
nature reserve, and important points outside them. Coordinated by
Hans-Georg Michna.
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Searchable Global Database
| specify a lat, lon and radius and it will tell you interesting things
about the area...towns, geocaches, wrecks, etc. Over 500,000 points.
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Soaring Turnpoint Exchange
| downloadable files in various formats, maintained by John Leibacher for
sailplane enthusiasts
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Terrestrial
Impact Crater Structures
| dozens of meteorite impact sites.
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Thesaurus of
Geographical Names
| provided by Getty Institute, has lats and lons.
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TopoGrafix
| waypoint management software and waypoint data files for the US (1.6
million waypoints) and all other countries (millions more)
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Travel By GPS
| GPS maps for recreation and travel, waypoints for hikers, boaters,
off-road, snow skiing, birding, etc.
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Waypoint Base
| relational database of waypoints, and a good list of links.
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Waypoint.com
| books, charts, etc. for sale
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| Africa
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Egypt #1
| latitudes and longitudes of several pyramids.
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Egypt #2
| about 18 waypoints of Cairo, courtesy of Gareth.
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East Africa #1
| airports and other waypoints in Kenya, east Africa and neighboring
nations, courtesy of Hans-Georg Michna.
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South
Africa #1
| 9 waypoints, courtesy of Gareth
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Southern Africa #1
| a web site devoted to Southern African waypoints.
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Tanzania #1
| 14 waypoints of Kilimanjaro, courtesy of Gareth.
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Zimbabwe
#1
| Victoria Falls, courtesy of Gareth
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Antarctica
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Antarctica #1
| latitudes as far south as 65 degrees, plus a couple of south Argentina,
courtesy of Stan.
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| Asia
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Borneo
#1
| near Mt. Kinabalu.
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Brunei #1
| 5 lists of Brunei waypoints.
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China #1
| four Hong Kong waypoints, courtesy of Gareth
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China
#2
| 28 from Hong Kong, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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China
#3
| 26 from Macau, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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China
#4
| 29 from Shanghai, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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India #1
| Taj Mahal, courtesy of Gareth
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Japan #1
| Mapoo map site, in Japanese, uses Toyko datum. Street level detail.
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Japan
#2
| Tokyo, Narita and Nagoya, courtesy of Paul Edwards
| Japan #3 | Excel spreadsheet of 450 aviation waypoints, courtesy of Jason |
Jordan #1
| four waypoints, courtesy of Gareth
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Malaysia #1
| courtesy of Alan Murphy, author of gpsutil.
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Malaysia
#2
| a trip by Paul Edwards to Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia #3
| courtesy of Alex
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Maldives
#1
| 3 locations, courtesy of Gareth
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Nepal #1
| differentially corrected, with altitudes, courtesy of Stan Armington
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Philippines #1
| treks and tourist destinations, courtesy of Ed Garcia
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Singapore #1
| 146 waypoints in Garmin GARTrip format.
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Singapore #2
| a Paul Edwards collection.
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Singapore #3
| a Steven Chan collection.
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Singapore #4
| 13 waypoints, courtesy of Gareth.
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Singapore #5
| courtesy of Alex
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Thailand
#1
| Bangkok waypoints, courtesy of world traveler Paul Edwards
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Turkey #1
| Alanya area waypoints, courtesy of Mahdi, in 5 formats. dat |
dxf | gdb |
gpx | mps
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Various #1
| Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand collections
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| Australia, New Zealand,
Pacific
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Australia #1
| a Paul Edwards collection of Sydney waypoints.
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Australia / NZ #1
| a web site devoted to Australian and New Zealand waypoints.
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Australia #2
| 6 waypoints of Sydney, courtesy of Gareth.
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Gold
Coast #1
| another Paul Edwards collection, also has trip reports.
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Australia
#2a
| Australian Geographic Place Names Gazetteer
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Australia #3
| Melbourne area railway stations, hostels, navigable waters and tourist
attractions, provided by Graham
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Australia #4
| Zipped Excel spreadsheet of aviation waypoints (airports, navaids and IFR turns),
courtesy of Alan. Here is the same
information in Magellan Points of Interest format.
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Australia
#5
| Perth, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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Australia
#6
| Adelaide, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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Australia
#7
| Cairns, Queensland, courtesy of Paul Edwards
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Australia #8
| Combined list of all aviation IFR
and VFR waypoints, navaids & airports as of April 2002, courtesy of Phil Lamb, plamb@2cba.org.au. Click on above
links if you just want the individual text files.
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Australia
#9
| 236 cities, towns and points of interest, courtesy of Colin Gibbs
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Australia
#10
| Ayer's Rock (Uluru), Northern Territory, courtesy of world traveler Paul
Edwards
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Australia #11
| Many, many waypoints collected by Ian while touring
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Fiji
#1
| Lautoka, Fiji, another set from Paul Edwards
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Fiji #2
| Includes waypoints from Fiji #1, courtesy of Martin Kanes
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New
Zealand #1
| government site with lots of information. From Sean Nixon.
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New Zealand #2
| 6 waypoints of Auckland, courtesy of Gareth.
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New Zealand #3
| Courtesy of Martin Kane
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New Zealand #5
| Every golf course on the North Island. Note: Requires
registration for Microsoft Passport.
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New Zealand #6
| New Zealand Aviation Waypoints (Aeroplane), courtesy of Fly McFly
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| Central and South America
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Argentina #1
| courtesy of Claudio Guillard.
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Argentina #2
| 5500 coordinates of Argentine cities and towns, in Excel format, zipped to
165K. Courtesy of Ricardo Nieto. See more waypoint files at http://www.deaviacion.com/gps/index.asp
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Argentina #3
| very large collection from Richard Nieto, one-half meg zip file. It
works with OziExplorer names search capability.
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Brazil #1
| a small but growing collection.
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Caribbean #1
| San Juan, PR; Aruba; La Guaira, Venezuela; Grenada; Dominica and St.
Thomas; in GPS Utility format, courtesy of Jack Leister
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Chile #1
| many Chilean waypoints, broken down by region of the nation, courtesy of
Claudio Guillard.
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Costa Rica #1
| 22 Costa Rican locations.
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Dominica #1
| every tourist destination includes lat and lon. Courtesy of Steve.
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Ecuador #1
| courtesy of Claudio Guillard.
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Falklands (Islas
Malvinas) | about 20 waypoints from Stan |
Peru #1
| Machu Picchu, Nazca Lines, etc., courtesy of Gareth
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Peru #2
| available in Garmin Mapsource and ASCII formats, courtesy of Didier
Stevens
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Peru #3
| courtesy of Claudio Guillard.
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South Georgia | approximately 20
waypoints, courtesy of Stan |
| Europe
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Andorra #1
| Pyrenees (Andorra, France and Spain), several hundred waypoints for
hikers and drivers. Courtesy of David M.
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Austria #1
| 11 Salzburg-area waypoints in Garmin GPS-III format.
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Austria #2
| a Paul Edwards collection of Vienna waypoints.
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Austria #3
| 11 waypoints of Vienna, courtesy of Gareth.
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Denmark #1
| some motorway exits, courtesy of Hans Henrick Scheel
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Denmark
#2
| four in Copenhagen, courtesy of Gareth
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Finland #1
| Arto Kojo's Finnish waypoint library
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France #1
| 7 Paris waypointBart Garmin GPS-III format.
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France #2
| About 75 French waypoints in GARtrip format.
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France #3
| a Paul Edwards collection of Paris waypoints.
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France #4
| Waypoints from the Provence region, provided by Nir Alon.
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France #5
| about 60 Paris locations from Simon Holt and Paul Edwards.
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France #6
| 9 waypoints of Paris, courtesy of Gareth.
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France #7
| Pyrenees (Andorra, France and Spain), several hundred waypoints for
hikers and drivers. Courtesy of David M.
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Germany
#1A
| download this large (150K) page, then use your browser's Find function
to search for town names. This file has place names from A through L.
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Germany
#1B
| second half of the collection described above. This file has place names
from M through Z.
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Germany #2
| 18 waypoints in Garmin GPS-III format.
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Germany #3
| a Paul Edwards collection of Berlin waypoints.
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Germany
#4
| Mannheim, Heidelberg and nearby areas, from Gerhard Glaser
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Germany #5
| complete and accurate waypoints at German airports, courtesy of Hans-Georg
Michna
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Germany #6
| 2000+ Wegpunkte (waypoints) for hikers, courtesy of Erhard Mueller
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Germany #7
| waypoints of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich / Munchen, courtesy of Gareth.
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Germany
#8
| five Frankfurt waypoints, courtesy of Gareth
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Germany #9
| eight Berlin waypoints, courtesy of Gareth
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Germany #10
| nine waypoints
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Greece #1
| over 400 waypoints, courtesy of Chris. To download file in wpt format,
click here.
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Ireland
#1
| A few Irish waypoints.
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Italy
#1
| Over 8,000 city waypoints, broken into files of 250 or fewer.
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Italy #2
| 8000 waypoints with a search engine
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Netherlands
#1
| points in and near Amsterdam, courtesy of Nico Bartels
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Netherlands
#2
| Dutch motorway junctions and exits, from Tonny Verhoef
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Netherlands #3
| 203 waypoints from the Achterhoek region, courtesy of bicyclist Rinus
Luijmes
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Netherlands #4
| 8 waypoints of Amsterdam, courtesy of Gareth.
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Netherlands #5
| all 370+ Dutch train stations, courtesy of Marc Pieters
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Netherlands #6
| courtesy of Alex
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Netherlands #7
| about 100 waypoints in Venray, southern Holland, courtesy of Piet
Verbruggen
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Northern Ireland #1
| a Paul Edwards collection of Northern Ireland and Belfast waypoints.
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Slovakia #1
| click on hladaj on the right side of the screen. Slovakia and Central
Europe.
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Spain #1
| massive collection of Spanish city and town coordinates, courtesy of
Enrique Montesinos. 19,500 locations in wpt format, compressed into a 440K zip file.
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Spain #2
| Pyrenees (Andorra, France and Spain), several hundred waypoints for
hikers and drivers. Courtesy of David M.
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Sweden #1
| a Paul Edwards collection of Stockholm waypoints.
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Sweden #2
| collections from Henrik Andersson
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Turkey #1
| two waypoints, courtesy of Dale
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UK #1
| Street maps for Greater London and road atlas maps for the whole of
mainland Britain.
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UK #2
| a Paul Edwards collection of London waypoints.
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UK #3
| Over 5,000 UK waypoints, including places to eat, motorway services and
junctions, car parks, petrol stations, munros, etc., suitable for upload
to a GPS receiver.
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UK #4
| Lats and lons, with other information, for dozens of distilleries in
Scotland.
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UK #5
| 15 waypoints of London, courtesy of Gareth.
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UK #6
| English waypoints (Stonehenge, etc.), courtesy of Gareth
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UK #7
| Lats and lons for any address in "mainland UK," along with
maps
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UK #8
| places to see Hadrian's Wall, courtesy of Poul and Geoff
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UK #9
| British
Mountains, Hills and Fells, the 214 Wainwrights, 517 Munros & Tops
and the Corbetts, in four different formats. Courtesy of Phil Newby. |
| North America
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AeroPlanner
| many interesting US locations, primarily for pilots but useful for
anyone
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AirNav
| Lats and lons of airports and navigation aids in the USA.
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Alaska
| Trails for hikers and snowmobilers in Alaska. Add your own!
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Maine -
Allagash
| 9 waypoints in the Allagash area of NW Maine, USA.
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Canada #1
| British Columbia -- a book listing 3000 coastal waypoints, "free" with some
purchases.
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Canada #2
| place names and locations in Canada.
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Canada #3
| Ontario -- Rideau Canal waypoints
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Canada #4
| airports, the result of a cooperative effort to input some printed data.
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Canada #5
| Ontario -- Ottawa area, courtesy of Gary
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Census Bureau
| all populated locations in the United States.
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Eagle GeoCode
| input an address, it tells lat and lon. US only.
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Farmers Markets |
Locations of LocalHarvest farmers' markets |
Golf By GPS
| locations at US golf courses. The "ultimate golf rangefinder."
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GPS Maps for Rec &
Travel
| waypoints for hikers, boaters, off-road, snow skiing, birding, etc.
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Internet
BMW Riders Assn.
| rally sites, cheap motels, BMW dealers, etc.
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Louisiana Fishing
Spots
| hundreds of marinas, reefs, dams, passes, etc.
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Maps On Us
| input a US address, it shows a map and provides the latitude and
longitude.
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Texas - Laguna Madre
| for fishermen
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TrailPeak.com
| Free waypoint/tracklog exchange of trails for hiking, biking, kayaking,
etc.
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U.S. #2
| over 19,000 airports, heliports and seaplane bases, formatted ready to
import into GPS's.
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U.S. #3
| Geographic Names Database from U.S. Geological Survey.
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U.S. #4
| searchable database for US locations in the GPS Waypoint Server, provided by Bob Wier.
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U.S. #6
| pointer to NIMA 18 megabyte (big!) file of aviation-related waypoints,
courtesy of an anonymous airline pilot. Home page is here.
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US #7
| hundreds of mines (gold, silver, etc.) all over the US, courtesy of Ron
Bogue
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Virginia - Wild Oak Trail
| waypoints for visitors to this Virginia, USA, national recreational
hiking trail.
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Wild Out There
| users put in a waypoint using a map or an address or coords, add pics,
files, rate the place, add to the notes about the place. Connects useful
map-related sites.
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Wyoming
| detailed maps, and a link to a free Windows viewer.
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Yahoo! Yellow Pages
| how to determine the lat / lon of businesses found in Yahoo Yellow
Pages.
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Other Important GPS Resources
More-recent information can be found at Maps-GPS-Info.com.
Information on GPS receivers and applications (some pretty weird) can be found at WaypointsWorld.com.
Joe Mehaffey's and Jack
Yeazel's GPS Information Website
. Whatever you want to know about Global
Positioning System, it's likely to be here. Hardware and software reviews, GPS
FAQ (FAQ's, actually), equipment manufacturer links, third-party software, ham
radio applications, GPS vendors, laptop and palmtops, etc.
Robin Lovelock's
Site.
Robin has free laptop software and free maps and waypoint lists for many
nations.
If you are looking for cheap
hotels and airline tickets to these
locations, check out Cheap Tickets
They are owned by Cendant, the same company that owns Orbitz, but they often
substantially undercut Orbitz prices.
If you have additional information, links or corrections for this
list, please notify the Webmaster.
Waypoint submissions are welcome by e-mail to webmaster -at- swopnet.com!
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