Extracting Lat & Long coords from Google Maps

Well it has been a long day. I've worked on adding geocoding ability and it is almost ready.
Geocoding involves entering a street address, town, or zip code into the textbox and a geocoding service determines the Latitude and Longitude of that spot.
Geocoding has a high overhead. Many geocoding services limit how many can be done in a specific time frame.
ProximityCast.com is primarily designed to be used with GPS coordinates and makes street addresses unnecessary. However the world's citizens are so use to street addresses that a transition period is necessary. And you do need the means to acquire the coordinates of a location if you are not on site with a GPS.

Here is a method I use to extract coordinates from Google Maps. You can copy and paste the extracted coordinates into ProximityCast.com with the parenthesis intact to use as a cast initiation point.

1. I open Google Maps to the vicinity of where I would like coordinates.
   
2. I use my right click mouse button and select "center map here" from the drop down button.
   
3. I past this javascript code that I keep saved somewhere convenient on my computer into my browser's URL address window.
   
   Here's the code:

   
   javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
   
   
   
4. I click the "go to the address in the location bar" button usually to the right of the address.
   
5. A popup appears showing the coordinates of the center of the map like this: (43.60336, -110.7362)
   
6. I right click on the coordinates the copy and click either "OK" or "Cancel"
   
7. I then paste the coordinates into google's "search maps" text box, remove the parenthesis and click "Search Maps"
   
8. A popup appears with a marker for the centered spot. The popup has the coordinates in both Decimal Degrees and Degrees, Minutes, Seconds.
   
9. I refine as and if necessary and I have my way point for inserting into my GPS or pasting into ProximityCast for a cast initiation point.

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Well, nuff said for entry #3. Time to go to bed shortly so I'll be ready for a new day.
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