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How to Get the Right Coordinates for your Map

You want to use the Map element from ShortPoint to render some specific location on the map,

You know how to open the Google map to point to your location, but you do not know how to get the Longitude and the Latitude in order to put them into the ShortPoint map element? If the answer is yes, then this article is for you.



Step 1:

Open Google Maps and search for the desired location you want to render using ShortPoint



Step 2:

Get the coordinates,


Right click on the exact place that you want to get the coordinates for, and select What's here?



A popup will appear on the screen, showing two numbers separated by a comma,

The number on the left is the latitude, and

The number on the right is the longitude




Step 3:

Paste Latitude and Longitude numbers into the Map element




Final Result:

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