Waterly now has the ability to enter geo coordinates of your site for Supervisors!


These coordinates will be tied to each site individually.


While we currently don’t have an application for this on a map, future releases will allow you to tie this data to sites in your GIS or related asset management application.


There are two new areas this available


When create a new site:


When editting an existing site:

**Note: Latitude and Longitude are not required fields in site creation or site edit 


How to get coordinates of your site

  1. Go to Google maps (or similar)
  2. Find the location of your site on the map
  3. By right clicking on the location, a pop-up menu will appear. Select “What’s here?” from the drop-down menu. This will render a similar pop up with coordinates:
  4. Click on the coordinates.
  5. A pop out will appear that will allow you to manually copy and paste into Waterly.  The first value is the latitude and the second value is longitude.

NOTE that Waterly only accepts decimal values for the inputs.  Latitude is restricted to negative (-)90 to 90 and longitude is restricted to negative (-)180 to 180.


Technical Information

Waterly stores coordinates in the same coordinate system that many mapping software companies (like Google) store them.  We use coordinates from the Mercator projection's origin (the northwest corner of the map at 180 degrees longitude and approximately 85 degrees latitude) and increase in the x direction (latitude) towards the east (right) and increase in the y direction (longitude) towards the south (down). For those technically minded, we use WGS84 (EPSG 3487).