How do you click on a map and have latitude and longitude fields in a form populated?

Question

I have a form that a user needs to fill out where the location needs to be identified. I have latitude and longitude input fields on the form. I am also looking for the de

Answer 1

Using the Google Maps API, you can do this pretty easily. Just add a click event handler to your map object, which passes in the latitude/longitude coordinates of where the user clicked (see details on the click event here).

function initMap()
{
    // do map object creation and initialization here
    // ...

    // add a click event handler to the map object
    GEvent.addListener(map, "click", function(overlay, latLng)
    {
        // display the lat/lng in your form's lat/lng fields
        document.getElementById("latFld").value = latLng.lat();
        document.getElementById("lngFld").value = latLng.lng();
    });
}