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FAtBalloon
FAtBalloon

Reputation: 4500

Locating GPS coordinates in an automated fashion through Google Maps

At http://maps.google.com, if you search for something like "Deschutes River, Oregon", you get an automatic GPS marker coordinate. Sometimes you get several different options on the side and I'm trying to figure out if you can obtain these markers automatically through the API or some other methods. I was just unable to find anything in the API that would supply this and I was thinking I may have just missed it somehow.

Thanks,Josh

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1283

Answers (2)

skaffman
skaffman

Reputation: 403481

What you are describing has nothing to do with GPS, it's just Google using its Geocoder service to turn search terms into locations. However, location technologies like GPS may be used to narrow down the search area to the current locality, but that's a subsidiary function.

Upvotes: 1

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 1242

What you are describing to is typically referred to as geocoding.

The documentation for Google's is here.

Upvotes: 2

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