How to Use GeoPinPoint

A quick, practical walkthrough of all four tools — what to type in, what you'll get back, and which one to reach for.

Address → Coordinates

Use this when you have a written address, postcode, or place name and need its exact latitude and longitude.

  1. Open Address → Coordinates.
  2. Type as much or as little of the address as you have — a full street address, just a postcode, or a landmark name like "Edinburgh Castle" all work.
  3. Press Find coordinates.
  4. The matched address, latitude and longitude appear above a map with a pin dropped on the exact spot.

Coordinates → Address

Use this when you already have a latitude/longitude pair — from a GPS device, a photo's metadata, or another system — and need to know what's actually there.

  1. Open Coordinates → Address.
  2. Enter the latitude and longitude as decimal degrees, e.g. 51.500729 and -0.124625.
  3. Press Find address.
  4. The nearest matching address appears, plotted on the map — check the pin against the text if the point falls somewhere remote.

Distance & Bearing

Use this to find out how far apart two places are, and which direction to travel to get from one to the other — in a straight line, not by road.

  1. Open Distance & Bearing.
  2. Enter Point A and Point B — either can be an address, postcode, or place name.
  3. Press Calculate.
  4. You'll get the distance in both kilometres and miles, plus the compass bearing from A to B, with the route drawn on the map.

Batch Convert

Use this when you have more than a handful of addresses to convert — a spreadsheet export, a mailing list, a delivery round.

  1. Open Batch Convert.
  2. Paste your addresses, one per line, into the box — copying a single column straight from Excel or Sheets works without any reformatting.
  3. Press Convert all and wait for the list to process.
  4. Use Download CSV to save the results — matched address, latitude and longitude for every line — as a spreadsheet.

Which tool do I actually need?

As a rule of thumb: starting from a written address and want a point on a map → Address → Coordinates. Starting from a coordinate pair and want to know what's there → Coordinates → Address. Comparing two locations → Distance & Bearing. Converting more than two or three addresses at once → Batch Convert, which saves running the single-address tool over and over. For worked examples of each, see the blog.