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Here is a quick way to find your latitude and longitude. It is a PHP script using the Google geocoding service. The Google Store Locator demo on this site utilizes the latitude and longitude from such a request to locate nearby Cyberstarweb locations. With this script as a start, you could build an entire site like geocoder.us

Here is the PHP source code of the geocoder.php

php


   set_error_handler('errorHandler');


   function errorHandler ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext)

{

	//suppress all errors

}


   if ($_POST['address'] != "") {

   		doGeo(urlencode($_POST['address']));

   		}


   function doGeo($marker) {

   // Your Google Maps API key

   $key = "Your key here";


   // Desired address

   $address = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=$marker&output=xml&key=$key";


   // Retrieve the URL contents

   $page = file_get_contents($address);


   // Parse the returned XML file

   $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($page);


// Retrieve the desired XML node

//   echo $xml->Response->Placemark->Point->coordinates;


   // Parse the coordinate string

   list($longitude, $latitude, $altitude) = explode(",",

        $xml->Response->Placemark->Point->coordinates);


   // Output the coordinates

	echo "

".urldecode($marker)."



Longitude: $longitude, Latitude: $latitude

";

}

?>