Google maps get latitude and longitude having city name?

Question

I want to get latitude and longitude of a city by providing the API with the city name. It should work for most cities regardless how the user inputs the city.

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Answer 1

You can use Google's geocoding service, e.g.,

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=Miami+FL&sensor=false

That gives you back georeferenced data in a variety of formats (JSON, XML, etc). In any event, the location is definitely in the returned data block.

The API docs are at:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/