Note that you can get close to your latitude and longitude with simple mouse movement over a map such as ...

Or you can do the geeky thing: buy or borrow a GPS receiver, and let it tell you where you are. :)

ICBM address: lat +34 +32.44.24.5, long -117.15.14.2, elev +20m MSL (but GPS says +30m)

Updates

  1. Picky picky picky! Jepri correctly points out that I need an elevation as well. Seeing as I live about 50 meters from the ocean, and that GPS units are notoriously flaky at elevation, I'll swag it.
  2. Woops, seems I mistyped my location the first time. (In case anyone was confused by my living in the middle of the Mojave Desert...)

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