About Locations

Why this exists

Most pages that promise to convert a coordinate bury the answer under a sign-up wall, three ad slots and a cookie banner — and quietly ship your position somewhere on the way. This one does the opposite. It picks one narrow job, raw coordinates, and does it cleanly: capture a fix, rewrite it in any notation, pin it to the metre, measure two points. The numbers are the product, so the numbers are all you get.

How it works

Each page ships as a prebuilt static file from Cloudflare’s edge, so it opens fast and works the same on a phone with two bars. The conversions — DD, DMS, UTM, MGRS, Plus Code, Geohash, distance, midpoint — are pure JavaScript that runs on your hardware. Only two things ever reach a server: a quick edge lookup that guesses a rough starting point from your IP so a map isn’t blank, and a cached proxy that names a dropped pin. Neither keeps a record.

Our data sources

A precise position is your own device’s GPS reading, handed over only after you tap to allow it. When you ask a dropped pin for its address, those coordinates pass through a cached proxy in front of OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim. The grid math itself is referenced to WGS84 and follows the published UTM, MGRS, Open Location Code and Geohash specs — open formulas you could check by hand, not a black box.

Sister sites

Need a private link that follows you as you move? That’s livelocation.app. Searching for a named place, the gap between two cities, or the local time somewhere? Head to places.app. Want everything under one roof? The full kit lives at mylocationapp.com.

Contact

Spot an error, want a format added, or have a privacy question? Write to hello@locations.app and a human will reply.