Address field - enter an address, city, state, place name, postal code or any other name for a location into this field, select "North America" or "Europe" from the region menu, and then click the find button to retrieve its latitude-longitude coordinate pair. Your result will be displayed in the box either under or to the right of the find button (depending on the width of the device you're viewing this on).

Latitude and Longitude fields - enter the latitude and longitude of the place you're trying to locate then click the find button. Again, your result will be displayed in the box either under or to the right of the find button.

Click the button to show your location on the map.

To find the latitude and longitude of a location enter its human readable form (i.e. an address, placename or postal/zip code, etc.) into the LOC field and then click the load button (the return key will also submit). The latitude, longitude and address of the location will be displayed in the "Selected Location" box, if the attempt was successful.

The and buttons are only available when the input fields have content.

To find an address from a latitude and longitude coordinate pair enter the coordinates into their corresponding fields (LAT for latitude and LNG for longitude). The coordinates fields accept degrees decimal, degrees minutes decimal or degrees minutes and seconds decimal. Click or type return/enter to submit. Again, results will display in the "Selected Location" box.

Click the clear button, , to clear the input fields.

This displays the results of the forward or reverse geocode process. Results are only an approximation. See also find address from latitude and longitude and find latitude and longitude from address.

Displays the latitude and longitude coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds decimal, degrees minutes decimal and degrees decimal of the currently selected map location.

Displays the latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes, seconds decimal, degrees minutes decimal and degrees decimal of the current mouse location. While dragging the map it displays the Map Center's coordinates. (See convert GPS coordinates to convert latitude-longitude coordinate pairs.)

This controls current parameters of the map via menu selection.

Map type selects the base layer of the map and thus controls the map's general appearance.

The overlays menu is a multi-select. Select the checkbox(es) of the layer(s) you wish to overlay base layer. Use each overlay's slider to control its transparency/opacity.

The zoom menu controls the map's zoom level (you can also use the +/- map control). Its range is affected by layer selections.

Map Height Click and drag the small, gray grab handle at the bottom of the map to adjust its height. Resize the window width to increase or decrease the map's width.

Reset the map to its default values and size by clicking the reset map button.

Clicking the button will load your location into the map.

Click to share the current map to Reddit.

Click to send an email link to the current map.

Click to share the current map via Twitter.

Click to share the current map on Facebook.

Click, or type control-shift-↓, to download an image of the current map.

Click to copy a URL of the current map to share with others.

Click to copy an HTML link element that can be copied and pasted into your website to link to the current map.