Getting Lat/Lng from a Click Event

This example listens for the click event, gets the latitude and longitude coordinates of the click from google.maps.MapMouseEvent.latLng, and displays those coordinates in an info window.

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Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application.

  git clone -b sample-event-click-latlng https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME.

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start