Question

i’d like to extract latitude and longitude values from google map links.

let’s say you have the following link (this is the link that you’d get on http://maps.google.com link menu)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tokyo&aq=&sll=35.675147,-95.712891&sspn=47.800848,92.724609&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tokyo,+Japan&t=h&z=9

there are a couple of lat/lon values here (sll, sspn) but none of them seems right.
In this case the first pair links to Mongolia the second goes to Oklahoma.

the correct lat/lon would be around 35.6894875, 139.6917064.

my question is that how you can get this values from a link?

I found this site http://mapki.com/wiki/Google_Map_Parameters
but i could not really figure out the solution.

thanks and best,
Viktor

Answer 1

The value of ll in your URL should be the latitude and longitude of the center of your map. Unfortunately, your URL does not have an ll parameter. When I go to Google Maps, map a location, and click the link button to get a URL to share, it invariably has the ll parameter. I’m not sure how you generated the above URL, but that might have a clue to the solution.