Trailhead GPS coordinates / Google Map

[jchapell]

Forgive me if I'm being totally stupid here…but I can’t figure it out after trying a couple browsers and searching this subforum!

I’m hoping to efficiently check distances to/from trailheads. I can’t seem to find GPS coordinates to trailheads anywhere, or be able to use google map directions. When I go to the “14er Trailheads on Google Maps” or "14er THs on Map" overlay I get a Maps of the trailheads that I can neither pull GPS locations nor get driving directions (or anything else, I can only…look at them).

Am I missing something? Or is there somewhere else to get trailhead coordinates? Gosh I feel dumb.

14er THs on Map overlay: http://14ers.com/map.php?trailheads=yes

14er Trailheads on Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll ... QVIt5tNE-c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[dpage]

From the droid 14ers app I get directions to to TH with Google maps, but on the website I don't.

[thurs]

Yeah. They're available on mobile, but suspiciously absent from the website. The closest thing I've seen possible is scrolling to the bottom of the "all trailheads" page (http://www.14ers.com/php14ers/trailheadsmain.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and selecting the TH you are interested as the "to" and anything else as the "from," then in the google maps direction page that opens, changing the "from" to wherever you're actually starting from.

But yeah -- Bill, we would appreciate if you included the TH coords on the page for each TH. Clicking the coords should take you to normal Google Maps with that point selected. then it's trivial to navigate to it. Thanks!

[jdorje]

openstreetmaps usually has pretty good data on these backcountry roads, and 14er trails themselves. Someone must be editing that in. Use the cycle maps for (low accuracy metric, sadly) topo data.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/38 ... 7&layers=C" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BillMiddlebrook]

Yeah. They're available on mobile, but suspiciously absent from the website. The closest thing I've seen possible is scrolling to the bottom of the "all trailheads" page (http://www.14ers.com/php14ers/trailheadsmain.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and selecting the TH you are interested as the "to" and anything else as the "from," then in the google maps direction page that opens, changing the "from" to wherever you're actually starting from.

But yeah -- Bill, we would appreciate if you included the TH coords on the page for each TH. Clicking the coords should take you to normal Google Maps with that point selected. then it's trivial to navigate to it. Thanks!

No problem!

Sorry it's not already out there since the coordinates are stored on each trailhead. They are used to generate the trailhead GPX file and map overlay, etc.

[jchapell]

And there they are -thanks Bill! Each individual trailhead page now has the GPS coordinates. Perfecto!

I'd note that the GPS coordinates are displayed in decimal format but still have the "°" degree symbol and "N" & "W" at the end, so to copy/paste into google maps you'll need to delete those endings, e.g. for Maroon lake it displays 39.09862° N, -106.94064° W, but you would instead need to paste 39.09862, -106.94064 into google maps to get the result.

Thanks again Bill!!!

[BillMiddlebrook]

Done! I added the coordinates to each trailhead page but if you don't see it, it's because I don't have the coordinates. The "Coordinates" pops up choices for either the 14ers.com map or a jump to Google Maps.

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