People who do geocaching as a hobby use their GPS to locate the
goal by longitude and latitude.  Ours will even give our altitude 
above sea level as we are on a hilltop and were curious.

73,

Dave, W7OQ
At 11:24 PM 6/12/2010, you wrote:
>I don't know of a web page, but I wonder if it would be retrievable from a
>GPS.  If you set a virtual position, then look for the nearest point of
>interest, that might have the details close enough.  I am trying to figure
>how much area is covered in a second.