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This site will show you a topo map on the web of a site that you name—and then give you the coordinates in your choice of degrees, minutes, seconds (hint—use this one for your North American Banding data!); decimal degrees, and UTM’s. Try it for determining your banding locations!
Look up locations in the USA and territories and Antartica. http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html (leaves this site)
Look up coordinates for locations in Canada. http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/index_e.php (leaves this site)
Look up coordinates for locations around the World. http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/ (leaves this site)
This site takes longitude/latitude pairs of coordinates (e.g.: banding and encounter site) as input and plots them on a Mercator projection map along with land/sea and political boundaries. http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ (leaves this site)
This useful program converts UTM's to coordinates http://crunch.tec.army.mil/software/corpscon/corpscon.html (leaves this site)
Here’s a page with links to lots of GIS sites. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html (leaves this site)
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