Find Latitude and Longitude Using maps.google.com

Here is a php script that gets the Latitude and Longitude of any address using the google maps API.

The original script comes from Ken. I just made some minor adjustments to it and made it dynamic.

This basically parses a JavaScript blob returned from the API and extracts the lat and long values.

If you’re feeling hackish, another neat trick found by qmchenry exposes Google Map’s JavaScript object and fires a series of functions to get the the lat and long values of the currently centered location in the browser. Just paste this JS into your address bar after you have searched for your address on google maps.

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

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5 Comments on “Find Latitude and Longitude Using maps.google.com”

1

From SDK

on Jun 20, 2007
at 9:00 am

It doesn’t seem to work. I Enter my address and click the submit button, but nothing works. It refreshes to a blank field and no results.
2

From mike

on Jun 26, 2007
at 2:06 pm

same here, doesn’t seem to work.
3

From Mojo

on Jun 26, 2007
at 8:47 pm

It seems google had updated their output so my regular expression search was failing. It should work now.
4

From vikas

on Jul 29, 2007
at 10:05 pm

To find latitude & longitude after entering country & state
5

From Albert

on Mar 12, 2008
at 7:53 am

Hi Mojo,

Would you give me te source code of this nice Find Latitude and Longitude Using maps.google.com script

With kind regards
Albert grooot