How to get an address or location from Google Maps?

Question

How can one get the street address and/or coordinates of any location on Google Maps with a minimum of fuss?

Google Calendar will spawn a window with a map to the location one specifies in the "where" field, however a lot of the time the location it picks is wrong. If you append the "where" with coordinates in the form of "Whitehorse Fish Ladder @60.69635,-135.0404" or use a street address it gets it right, but what if you don't have the address at the tip of your fingers?

Answer 1

If you have the full map at the tip of your fingers, you can right-click on any location and get "Directions From Here" or "Directions To Here", which populates the from/to box with Google's nearest approximation of where you clicked.

You can also use "What's Here" to set a marker, which will have a associated lat/long in the corner (but doesn't appear to find roads or addresses)

Answer 2

You have a street address, and wish to find it's Lat/Lon (reverse geocoding)

1. Turn on the LatLong ToolTip in the Google Maps site. (Details below).

now either...

1. Search for the address in google maps. Hover the mouse over the marker that shows the location you want. -- OR --
2. Use the google maps geocoding api for reverse geocoding. Eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=34.0703,-118.3981&sensor=false --OR--
3. Search for the Lat/Long in the google maps search.

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You have a Lat/Long and wish to find the (nearest) address (geocoding)

1. Use the google maps geocoding api.

a) Json result: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false

b) Xml result: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false

. . .

How do I turn on the LatLong Tool Tips?

Answer 3

Just drag the marker in the official v3 google maps api example

http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draggable-markers/draggable-markers.html

If you use FireFox you can use Google Maps and this snippet of javascript code and create a bookmark.

("http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=",gApplication .getMap().getCenter()));

[can be google.com, .ca , .co.za etc]

note: this only gets the centre of the map latitude and longitude the more zoomed in the higher the accuracy

See

http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2007/02/return-latitude-and-longitude-fast.html

for full instructions on creating a bookmark.

Another useful one is when you select an address (as you would copy and paste)

javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://www.bookmaplet.com/scripts/bm.js');document.body.appendChild(e)})())

*just replace this code as above and create another bookmark.