How can find the Latitude and Longitude of a place using Google Maps?

Question

Thank you Gnomon.

How accurate would you say this is? I can't zoom in as much as I would like to, and so probably the latitudes and longitudes are for a wider region than I would want.

Thanks mike1942f.

Answer 1

Click on the "Link to this page" link.

Now look in your address bar. You will see a long string of letters and numbers starting with "http://...". In the middle of it you will see ll= followed by the latitude, a comma, then the longitude. After this, there is an & and other information which you can ignore.

Positive latitude means north, negative latitude means south. Positive longitude means east, negative longitude means west.

The latitude and longitude are given in degrees and decimals of a degree, not in degrees minutes and seconds, so if you want them in minutes and seconds, you'll have to convert.

Answer 2

If you look at the bottom of the Google Earth map, the longitude, latittude and altitude are given constantly for the position of the mouse cursor. I have used it to judge the feet rise my bicycle trip in the park across the street took (92 feet) and to look at land in England along a river that was mentioned in a story as being flooded when maintenance stopped - it was minus 2 feet.
The sidewalk in front of my house which is a bit fuzzy, can be measured with the ruler as 3-4 feet, which should be close enough for you.
Figures given are degrees and fractional minutes and fractional seconds, so you may need to convert them.