{"id":7472,"date":"2012-11-17T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2012-11-17T03:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:16:41","slug":"find-the-longitude-and-latitude-of-a-location-using-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/find-the-longitude-and-latitude-of-a-location-using-google-maps\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"Find the longitude and latitude of a location using Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this WordPress plugin that places a nicely formatted map on my contact page. It requires the longitude and latitude of my business location. There are a number of WordPress plugins and other website apps that use longitude and latitude variables to function.&nbsp;You can find these two variables easily using Google Maps.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this tutorial I will show you how to find the longitude and latitude of a location using Google Maps.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a browser and navigate to <a title=\"google maps\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Type in your&nbsp;location&nbsp;in the top search field.<\/li>\n<li>Right mouse click the blip on the map and select 'What's here?'.\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_blip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7482\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"google_maps_blip\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_blip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_blip.png 385w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_blip-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The latitude and longitude, in that order, will popup in the search field at the top of the page.\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_latitude_longitude.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7483\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"google_maps_latitude_longitude\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_latitude_longitude.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_latitude_longitude.jpg 371w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google_maps_latitude_longitude-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this WordPress plugin that places a nicely formatted map on my contact page. It requires the longitude and latitude of my business location. There are a number of WordPress plugins and other website apps that use longitude and latitude variables to function.&nbsp;You can find these two variables easily using Google Maps.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,4],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-tips","category-tutorials","tag-google-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}