Add Maps to Your Page: Step 2 - Find the Latitude/Longitude

For each item (an image, a link, any text) you want to place on the map, you need to know the latitude and longitude where it should go. You can get the lat/lng any way you would like, but the most common way is to either use a GPS or our geopoint search page. NEW FEATURE: With our latest version, you can now use 'addr' instead of lat/lng to tag HTML tags with a real-language address.

One thing to keep in mind when finding the lat/lng with a tool other than our geopoint search page: we use lat/lng measured in degrees with minutes as the decimal part of the degree. Latitudes north of the Equator are positive and south of the Equator are negative; longitudes east of the Prime Meridian are positive and west of the Prime Meridian are negative. An example (lat, lng) pairing in North America - north of the Equator and west of the Prime Meridian - is: (41.5, -74.2).

In the HTML code of your web page, add the lat and lng inside the HTML tags. Remember: if you are using an HTML formatting tool such as a blog editor, you should switch to edit the HTML directly. Here are some examples of how to tag HTML items with the lat/lng (41.5, -74.2): <img lat='41.5' lng='-74.2' src='http://geo.goro.am/images/logo.gif' alt='GoRoam Logo' />
<a lat='41.5' lng='-74.2' href='http://goro.am/'>GoRoam Homepage</a>
<p lat='41.5' lng='-74.2' title="Today's Blog Post">I was walking down the road here...</p>
<div lat='41.5' lng='-74.2' title="Today's Blog Post">I was walking down the road here...</div>


After tagging all of your items with the lat/lng, you are ready to move on to Step 3.

See also: how to do step 2 on popular sites.