How to find the latitude and longitude for international locations?

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by askar • 15 years ago

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Given just a zipcode (or postal code, for other international places) do you know of a simple way of getting the latitude, longitude and timezone of the location? A country code can be considered as well along with zip/postal code.

alexsb92• 15 years ago

There are a few ways. To find the Longitude and latitude: 1. Google map your address or whatever. 2. Don't move the map around. 3. Erase your address bar and copy and paste "javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));" without quotes in your address bar. 4. Those are the coordinates.

To find the timezone if you click "more info" when you look up a postal code/zip code on google maps, it will give you the time zone under the entry name

EDIT: Now that I think about it, the easiest way would be through Google Earth, as your pointer is always being tracked. Just enter the zip code and hover over the marker.

askar• 15 years ago

Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear with my question, I wanted to do this programatically. I can find the latitude/longitude based on US zipcodes but was wondering what would be the easiest and best way to find the same for international locations.

How to find the latitude and longitude for international locations?

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