haw can i get latitude and longitude of particular place

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I want to make a html page with Textbox "Place", "longitude" and "latitude" when we type any place name in place Textbox and submit form call a java script function to get "longitude" and "latitude" .

Posted 11-Aug-11 19:05pm

vivek511

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Herman<T>.Instance 12-Aug-11 3:26am

why have a city typed while you can find this data via his IP address:
http://briancray.com/2009/05/29/find-web-visitors-location-javascript-google-api/

OriginalGriff 12-Aug-11 3:58am

Because the user might want to find data for a place he is going to, rather than is in?

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TRK3 · Answer 1 · 2011-08-13T05:07:00

I happen to use worldweatheronline.com to get local weather.

Part of their API includes a city search API -- you give them a city name and they return the best matches for that name. For example you give them "Paris" it will give you back: "Paris, France", "Paris, TX" , etc. along with the latitude and longitude for each.

There are others available if you google for them.

Google has a similar API, but my understanding of their terms of use is you are only supposed to use that API if you are going to use it to display a point on a map -- since that isn't my usage model I went with something else.

There's a good sample webpage here:

http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php[^]

which I found via google. He lists links to services he uses to get the data, and you can also look at the source code for the page.