Whether you want to quickly add a waypoint to your GPS, or view a map of a known location, it can often be convenient to use real latitude and longitude values with Google Maps instead of dealing with street addresses.
Rerieving a map for a lat/lon value is simple enough with Google Maps. You can simply enter the decimal latitude and longitude into the search form instead of a street address.
However, if you’re viewing a map and you want to retrieve the lat/lon location, there unfortunately isn’t a convenient “get latitude and longitude” button. Google Maps deals with latitude and longitude locations internally, though, so with this little snippet of javascript, you can easily get the job done:
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter())
This will return the coordinates of the map’s center point. You might want to double-click a position on the map before running the above code. Doing so will reposition that point to the center of the map automatically.
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