2009/4/17 joediddley <[email protected]>: > > That assumes that I have coordinates. I don't have coordinates. The > URL is for a local search, the output desired is a map with > coordinates. The use of static maps was a shortcut.
Ancient proverb says, the longest route between two points is the shortcut. Moral of the story, do a better way and you wont have the issue. And it would be quicker, you could probably have done it the time this thread has been running. > > Even Google Static Maps documentation suggestions looking for the lat/ > lng on the page: > > "You can obtain geocoded latitude and longitude values using a variety > of services other than this Geocoding service, including Google Maps > itself. For example, you can enter an address into Google Maps and > determine its geocoded location by clicking on the Link to this page > link in the upper right of the map. A popup dialog box will appear > where you can copy the URL. If you copy that URL into a browser, you > will be able to find the geocoded values contained within the ll > parameter." > > It just so happens that these sorts of tricks do not seem to work > using Google Maps with the output=html parameter. No Link to find the > decimal coordinates. Instead, there are these: latitude_e6=51472608, > longitude_e6=4294519238. > > I very much appreciate the replies and hope that there is a way. I > can't tell from the current set of replies though if people are not > sure if there is a conversion possible. I figured there must be hope, > since those are the parameters Google Maps used so I figure they must > know how to convert them, and therefore maybe someone in this group > does too. I would guess it is a static sort of mathematical / > conversion function. > > Thanks > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
