>>>Don't know how you do this in Google Earth but, FWIW, I'm at : 52° 3'1.19"N 3° 5'53.66"W
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>>Google maps is so cool...
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>I like Google Earth best - it's been spring-time here for at least two years now!
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>Anyway I haven't found a way to (interactively) punch in Lat/Long co-ordinates in either Google Earth or Google Maps....

Do you mean programmatically? In one of the AJAX books I was reading few months ago there was a chapter of Google Maps and how to set up some things in code...