I wanted 2625 West Baseline Road, Tempe, AZ 85283 Using Google Maps I got 33.386375 and 111.976776
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2625+West+Baseline+Road,+Tempe,+AZ+85283&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=33.386375,-111.976776&spn=0.026732,0.086517&om=1&iwloc=addr Using the link you gave me I got 33.377384 and -111.976200 http://maps.huge.info/showaddress.htm?lat=33.377384&lng=-111.976200&zoom=14&address=2625+West+Baseline+Road,+Tempe,+AZ+85283 Using Yahoo Maps I got 33.377989 and -111.976672 http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=33.377989&lon=-111.976672&zoom=15&q1=2625%2520West%2520Baseline%2520Road%252C%2520Tempe%252C%2520AZ%252085283&gid1=20072508 The Huge.Info numbers work best with the API, but why are the others wrong? On Dec 30, 4:06 am, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 30, 3:47 am, donjamessingleton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am a newbie at using the API, but I am having problems finding > > latitude/longitude. I do a google map search on an address, and copy > > the latitude/longitude from the URL and the icon is not the same place > > as it is on google maps. I tried yahoo maps and it gives different > > latitude/longitude than google maps for the same address > > You don't say where you are finding the coordinates in the URL. > Obviously they are not the numbers you're copying! The Yahoo! geocoder > is different from Google's and is very likely to provide different > results. > > You need to use something which will actually provide the right > coordinates, such as John'shttp://maps.huge.info/pinpointaddress.htm > -- you can extract the coordinates from the link generated, or alter > his code to output the coordinates to the page. > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
