Postal Address Lookup with Google Maps

With Google Maps Lookup, you can quickly determine the approximate postal address of any location on the world map.

To get started, drag the red marker anywhere on the Google Map and the address details (including the latitude and longitude) of that place will display in the pop-up window.

Reverse Geocoding with Google Maps

Internally, the tool uses the Geocoding features of Google Maps to find the address of a particular point. When you drag the marker, the geographic coordinates of that place are passed to the Geocoding API of Google Maps which then translates the location coordinates into a human-readable physical address.

1. Type the city name, partial postal address or even the zip code in the search box and hit Enter to quickly jump to any particular region on the map.
2. Put the latitude and longitude values into Google Earth to know the date when the satellite images were taken.
3. Copy-paste the latitude and longitude values of a place from Google Maps into Bing Maps, switch to the Aerial views and compare the satellite imagery.

This tool was created by Amit Agarwal for on October 25, 2008. It was last updated in July 2012 to use v3 of the Google Maps API.