Find Longitude and Latitude in Google Maps

This post is basically a way of quick appreciation to the Google maps Team, they are obviously a bunch of caring, loving people ,who make useful (although surreptitious) tools for the betterment of Geek Kind.

So as most of you may have accidentally clicked a mysterious looking link at the bottom of your Google maps page ( on the left hand panel)

This awesome looking link opens up a popup which lets you choose wonderful goodies which makes your Google maps page more useful than it already is:

Now one can choose things like Smart Zoom but this post is about LatLng marker and tooltip,

which are very handy, especially if one works as a GIS application developer.

Once you are done selecting, simply click Save changes and that’s it.(You may have to refresh your page though ).

After these features have been enabled, a user can now right click anywhere on the map, and in the options window, a new link “Drop latLng Marker” will appear.

Select that and the obvious will happen.

and there you have it, an easy, helpful, Hidden(not anymore), but nevertheless extremely useful utility to get latitude and longitude from Google maps.