Tag Archive 'Latitude and Longitude'

Elevation Lookup Added to Zmanim Calendar Generator

Posted by KosherJava on September 9, 2006 - ט"ז אלול תשס"ו | Filed under: Site News, Zmanim

A lookup tool for elevation lookup was added to the Zmanim Calendar Generator page. This service is courtesy of Jonathan Stott’s earthtools.org elevation webservice. This Elevation data currently only covers all of mainland Europe (between latitudes 35°N and 60°N and longitudes 35°E and 15°W) and all of the contiguous states of the United States of [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator Now using Google Maps

Posted by KosherJava on January 26, 2006 - כ"ו טבת תשס"ו | Filed under: Software Dev, Zmanim

The Zmanim Calendar Generator now has a simple way to look up longitude and latitude information using the Google Maps API. To use this feature, click on the Google Maps icon to display the map (location centered on Bais Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood), find the location that you want to generate zmanim for, and click [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator TODO List

Posted by KosherJava on July 27, 2005 - כ' תמוז תשס"ה | Filed under: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

I slightly updated the Zmanim Calendar Generator to add some user input validation.
Looking at the logs, I noticed that someone generated a calendar with the longitude and latitude of Lakewood, NJ (the default), with just the location label changed to Minneapolis, MN. I don’t know if the user was just testing, or just assumed that [...]