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- Find the host's site:
- You may have visted the site and be able to identify it on a map.
- or copy URL from the NODEDETAILS database, paste it in your web browser. Go to the site and look for the sites address (steet address, city etc.). You may find this under 'Contact us' link or see the bottom of the page to find the site's address.
- or suppose you do not have a URL then use Node Name/Full Name from Node Detail NODEDETAIL database to find some web site for that node. If you find the web site, then do same as explained in Step b.
- if there is no web site listed for that node then Use City information to go to that city. Use Zoom facility to make a rough guess of the coordinates again using google map or link. Somtimes the lat-long-finder will recognize the site's official name and point you to it.
- If you do not find an entry in NODEDETAILS database for the desired node, then use the Name of the node to find the full name or City of the node using Google help.
- Once you have the location information (e.g. street address), find its coordinates on Google map or through link (Given above).
- On the other hand if you have a contact at the site or there is a contact entry in the NODEDETAILS database, you can contact (e.g. by email) the Contact Person of the host by email to request the Latitude and Longitude.
Results
We have applied this method to find latitude and longitude of PingER nodes. We used manual method to find coordinates of 14 PingER nodes successfully. e.g. dnsstat.polyn.kiae.su, this node is in Russia. This is because we could not find any contact person in our database. Similarly we have sent the mails to the contact persons of other PingER nodes and we have got 60% response (24 Nodes) with server coordinates. This is the most accurate way to find geographical coordinates.