How to get the coordinates in the new Google Maps?

Question

You used to be able to right-click and drop a lat-lon marker on a point to get its coordinates:

How do you get the latitude & longitude in the new Google Maps?

Update: just got an email from Google today with this announcement:

Answer 1

You can once again get the latitude/longitude for any arbitrary point on the map by right-clicking (or Ctrl+click) and choosing "What's here?"

[source: +GoogleMaps]

Answer 2

LEFT-click on the place that you want coordinates for.

Notice that there is a small circle which radiates at that place, or the nearest on-street place.

In the top left of the map, a small display box appears, showing the address and lat/long coordinates:

• You can copy / paste these as text.
• They are also a hyperlink: if you click on them, then the map centers at that place, with a large red marker and the coordinates displayed beside it.

In some places, it looks like Maps defaults to the nearest on-street location, but testing the click-on-the-link features does appear to go to the exact location.

Answer 3

The previous method no longer works, now you may get the coordinates from the URL. (Note: they are the coordinates of the place at the center of the window) Usually the URLs are like this -

https://www.google.co.in/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d788!2d88.4328534!3d22.6145349

or

https://www.google.co.in/maps/preview#!q=Statue+of+Liberty+National+Monument%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+United+States&data=!1m4!1m3!1d2588!2d-74.0440104!3d40.6907415!4m11!1m10!2i15!4m8!1m3!1d3152!2d88.4379395!3d22.5734607!3m2!1i1366!2i657!4f13.1

Notice the data parameter -

data=!1m4!1m3!1d788!2d88.4328534!3d22.6145349
data=!1m4!1m3!1d2588!2d-74.0440104!3d40.6907415

Co-ordinates are clearly visible. For the first one 22.6145349, 88.4328534, for the second one 40.6907415, -74.0440104.

This might not be the best way to fetch coordinates from Google maps, but it's the only one as of now.

Answer 4

I just created a tampermonkey script to help getting the coordinates from the new google maps:

// ==UserScript==
// @name       Google maps coordinates fetcher
// @namespace  https://www.google.com/maps/preview
// @version    0.1
// @description  This script shows the current coordinates of the center of the map in the new google maps
// @match      https://www.google.com/maps/preview*
// @copyright  2013+, muddymind
// @require    http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js
// ==/UserScript==


(function() {


    //constants
    var SCRIPT_DEBUG_PREFIX = "Google maps coordinates fetcher: ";
    var DEBUG_ENABLED = true;

    var X_COORDINATE_INDENTIFIER = "!3d";
    var Y_COORDINATE_INDENTIFIER = "!2d";

    var COORDINATES_REFRESH_RATE = 1000;

    var DIV_CONTAINER_STYLE = "position: fixed; bottom: 20%; left: 0; background-color: white; width: auto; height: auto; padding: 10px; opacity: 0.6;";
    //end of constants

    //variables
    var coordinatesContainer = undefined;
    var previousCoordinateValue = "";
    //end of variables

    //auxiliar Classes and functions
    function util_consoleDebug(message, obj){
        if(DEBUG_ENABLED==true) {
            console.debug( SCRIPT_DEBUG_PREFIX + message );
        }

        if(obj!=undefined){
            console.debug( obj );
        }
    }

    function getParameter(parameterName){
        var url = window.location.href;

        var val = url.match(parameterName+"[0-9\.-]*");

        return val[0].substr(parameterName.length);
    }

    function updateCoordinates(){

        util_consoleDebug("updating coordinates...");

        try{

            var result = getParameter(X_COORDINATE_INDENTIFIER);
            result += ",";
            result += getParameter(Y_COORDINATE_INDENTIFIER);

            util_consoleDebug("current coordinates "+ result);

            if(previousCoordinateValue != result){
                coordinatesContainer.text(result);
                previousCoordinateValue = result;
                util_consoleDebug("coordinates updated to "+ result);
            }
            else{
                util_consoleDebug("no update needed!");
                //do nothing

            }

        }catch(Exception){
            util_consoleDebug("error updating coordinates - " + Exception);
        }

        util_consoleDebug("scheduling next update after " + COORDINATES_REFRESH_RATE);
        setTimeout(function(){updateCoordinates()}, COORDINATES_REFRESH_RATE);
    }
    //end of auxiliar Classes and functions


    //settings
    coordinatesContainer = $('<div style="' + DIV_CONTAINER_STYLE + '">');
    $('body').append(coordinatesContainer);    
    //end of settings

    //debug
    util_consoleDebug("script inited!");
    //end of debug


    //main
    updateCoordinates();
    //end of main
})()

I hope this helps ;)

Answer 5

Well just found this that might be helpfull as a tool so you can get coordinates in the form of lat,long

http://www.latlong.net/convert-address-to-lat-long.html

Answer 6

Or you could just use this convertor.

Answer 7

You can right click anywhere on the map and select "What's Here?" from the menu. It will drop a green arrow. Mouse over the green arrow to see a tool tip that contains the coordinates. Click on the green arrow to see a pop-up window that also contains the coordinates. You can copy the text from the pop-up window.