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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 08:48 AM
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GPS restaurant guide

If you travel with a GPS, you can do the community a service by marking the location of a meal that you liked. Restaurant, street vendor, railway kiosk - makes no difference. Just record the site's latitude/longitude and add it to the <B>Foodieland Map</b> when you get home.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...111.796875&z=3

(Obviously, you could just write down the address, but geolocation is easier and less prone to ambiguity when telling Google where to put the placemark.)
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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 09:16 AM
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Hi Robes,
Please help me. I clicked on the link you posted and got a picture of the Atlantic Ocean (trench and all).
How do I move from there to "Foodieland Map"?
Your suggestion is fantastic but you are dealing with first time GPS locaters here! I don't know how to even enter the co-ordinates onto my Garmin - Patience or advice is very welcome!
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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 09:37 AM
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Zoom out (click the - sign on the scale at left). If you click on the bottom end of the scale, you get the entire world.

I don't speak Garmin, but I believe most GPSs have the functional equivalent of "Mark where I am right now."

You can locate any spot on the planet with maps.google.com by entering the latitude/longitude, such as <B>41 43 57N 49 56 49W</B>
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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 10:00 AM
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My Garmin (nuvi 670) definitely has an option of entering coordinates as a location.
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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 10:04 AM
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Great idea, but how the heck do I add to the map? When I typed in the coordinates I got a Google Earth view of the Budapest Food Hall but couldn't find a way to add it to Foodieland.
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Old Mar 26th, 2009 | 01:02 PM
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For instructions, see this thread: http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...orland-map.cfm

For the second step, click this: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...111.796875&z=3
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