For those who are working with GPS or interested in it this is a quick post to hopefully draw some attention to this cool online tool. Home Page
Background: I have been working on a GPS application that would allow the users to pick their work stops from an uploaded list of waypoints to the GPS device. So, given that I have been building the database and filling it with a minimal set of test data to start running LINQ queries against. Then I ran into a problem: I had the address for all of the test waypoints (real addresses) but I did not have the GPS coordinates.
Enter GPS Visualizer! I was able to enter either a single street address and have it plot the point on a map AND give me the coordinates that I needed. So I ran a single address from the ‘Geocode a single address‘ link with the following result (see red arrows for points of interest):