The Easy Way to Find Latitude and Longitude Values in Google Maps
Up until now, you needed to use a javascript trick to get the latitude and longitude values from Google Maps. Now there are a couple of ways available that are much easier.
The first one is the LatLng Tooltip. It displays a tooltip next to the mouse cursor and displays the latitude and longitude directly underneath.
1. Go to Google Maps and login to your account.
2. Go to the upper-right corner and select the green flask icon
.
3. Scroll down to the LatLng Tooltip and select it’s Enable radio button.

4. Click the Save changes button.
Now a tooltip will follow your cursor and display the latitude and longitude of where the cursor is pointing.

The other option is the LatLng Marker. It adds an option to the context menu to drop a marker to display the latitude and longitude of that spot.
1. Go to Google Maps and login to your account.
2. Go to the upper-right corner and select the green flask icon
.
3. Scroll down to the LatLng Marker and select it’s Enable radio button.

4. Click the Save changes button.
Now all you have to do is go to the context menu, select Drop LatLng Marker

and the latitude and longitude will be displayed for you.









Anonymous said on February 18, 2010
Anyone know how to do the other way around
enter lon / lat -> goto location ?
Anonymous said on March 15, 2010
Is there any way to do this using Google Maps on an Android?
Tim Leary said on March 18, 2010
Great tips! Thanks, Weekend Warrior.
José Andrés Martínez said on October 5, 2010
even better, thanks a lot!
Bharathiraghu said on October 8, 2010
Thanks a ton….this was really useful…
Deepal Wijesooriya said on November 11, 2010
thank you for your dedication. it helps me loan way. it will help to lot of people. i am a doctor by profession. i save lot of time because of you. thank you again for your contribution.
Xaltaz said on November 18, 2010
just enter the lon/lat separated by comma in the text box beside “search maps” button.
e.g.
43.67750, -80.73390 [Search Maps]
Den Jaka said on December 3, 2010
thnaks bro, good article, i’m using this now.. ;D
Neonamu said on January 17, 2011
Nice stuff!. Thanks you for the info!
Rkannan1386 said on February 9, 2011
Thank you. Great help!!!
Bryanandrewduffy said on April 7, 2011
Is there a way to do this on google earth?
Bruce said on August 20, 2011
Doesn’t seem to work in Firefox
Bill said on September 1, 2011
Nice tip – thanks! Now I don’t have to mess with loading Google Earth on my Ubuntu box.
Chris said on October 13, 2011
Hi and thanks for the cool javascript in the address bar tip, that rocks. For the other method involving the green flask, I must be doing something stupid because when I am logged in, in neither Map nor Satelllite views do I see a “green flask” anywhere! Has the interface been changed since this article was written or is there something I am missing? Thanks for sharing the info in the first place though! -c-
Jay Lepore said on December 13, 2011
Hello,
Thanks for the lat / lng tips on the Google Map Lab link.
That’s kills it !
Jay
Bomb said on January 17, 2012
I USED Lat.Lng tooltip , it’s work great , thanks very much