Google Map - Find your location with geographic coordinates
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Geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude) are very important element for a geography scholar who is looking on a map for location details. Desktop, Network and Internet based GIS applications provide details on locations and their coordinate details with improved interactivity. Google Maps do not display their latitude longitude values of a location when you move your mouse pointer on the map. But it can be retrievable from Google Map by running some functions in the background. Here is an example of Google Map API by which you can find out a location of your interest anywhere in the world and its latitude and longitude values accurately. By default these values are kept as decimal degrees.
Let us see how this is possible to find an location with coordinate values. Enter your location details preferably with combinations of number, street, city, state, country etc. in the search box and click the button “search”. As a result, your location will be marked at the centre of the map and latitude/longitude values will be displayed just above the map. Here you can see the default location is Henderson, Nevada, USA. If you move the marker anywhere on the map with your mouse pointer, the coordinate values will also refresh, thus you can find out the values interactively.
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i want to send me in my e-mail how can i make this on my web site…i want to enter a string (location) and have returned the lat long coordinates..thanx
Fanis,
Click below the map, there is a link for enlarged view. View the page source from your browser. Modify and use the snippet of code.
Prior to do this sign up to get Google Maps API key from http://code.google.com/apis/maps/.
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