What is my map location?

GPS Coordinates is the best way to ensure your venue is reliably positioned on the map and it’s not difficult to find those coordinates with Google maps, at https://www.google.com/maps/

NB Google’s ‘Copy Plus’ locations which looks like this: V4G9+FC Keighley do not work with a Google Map like ours. 

How to find your GPS Coordinates on Google Maps
This is the most precise and unique method. Open Google Maps (not the Folk Music Map) and zoom in on your venue. In this image I’ve zoomed in on East Riddlesden Hall (A nice place to visit if you are in West Yorkshire)

Riddlesden

If you are using a Windows PC right-click on the exact spot you want to use and a menu box will pop up beside your pointer with various information. If you use a Mac or Linux computer I expect there will be something similar.

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Right at the top of that pop-up box are the coordinates. Click on them (normal left click on a PC) and they will be copied to your clipboard and can be pasted into the Folk Club Map form. Clip precisely on the coordinates, not any other item on the menu which will take you somewhere else.

Please use only this coordinate format
You may have coordinates in other formats, for example, 54°01’08.6″N 0°34’51.2″W, but often that doesn’t work properly with our map.



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