How to Put Latitude on GPS Microsoft Live Maps

Bing Maps provides maps and aerial images of the world.

Microsoft Live Maps, now known as Bing Maps, is a web-based mapping website providing aerial images and street maps of much of the planet. Bing Maps can be transmitted to a GPS navigation device using MSN Direct, or directly to your computer via USB cable. If you simply want to enter longitude and latitude coordinates to your GPS device, you can run a script on the Bing Maps to provide the information. Acquiring longitude and latitude coordinates from Bing Maps will take just a few seconds.

Instructions

1. Go to the Bing Maps website and enter a detailed location or Zip code into the "Location" box at the top of the screen. Hit enter or click the magnifying glass icon.

2. Wait as your location is loaded. The orange marker pin will be the basis for your longitude and latitude results, so make sure it is as accurate as possible by providing plenty of detail in Step 1.

3. Clear the address from your browser's address bar. Enter "javascript:map.GetCenter()" (no quotation marks) in its place, and hit "Enter."

4. Write down the two numbers provided on the next page without the brackets. These are your longitude and latitude results for your GPS device. The first number is the latitude, the second is longitude. The two numbers are separated by a comma.

5. Enter the longitude and latitude numbers into your GPS device.

Tips & Warnings

• When entering the script in step 3 you may have to approve warnings from your browser before it will work.

References

• Tactical Technique: Get Longitude and Latitude from Bing Maps
• World Atlas: Longitude and Latitude

Resources

• Bing Maps: Home