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:
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Sign up to join this communityYou 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?"
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:
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.
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.
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 ;)
Well just found this that might be helpfull as a tool so you can get coordinates in the form of lat,long
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.
What's Here?
the coordinates get pasted into the map search box at the top of the page.
https://maps.google.com/
and either search for an address and do this or just start navigating on the map. Either way when I right click and choose "What's here?" I get coordinates. Also just tried this in IE and also worked. Works whether I am logged into google or not. Do you run an adblocker or some other addon that might interfere?