Searching for a location

In the previous section, we displayed a location on the map using its coordinates. Now, let's discuss how to search for and display a location using a string query. It can be done in the following ways:

• geo:latitude,longitude?q=my+street+address

• geo:0,0?q=my+street+address

• geo:0,0?q=latitude,longitude(label)

For zoom, we use the z parameter. Here, we used q as the parameter. In the second and third way, we used 0,0 as the latitude and longitude and passed the query. The map takes the coordinates 0,0 as the base and begins its search. There may be situations where the same address may exist in many places all over the world. To prevent this confusion, we use the latitude and longitude as a specified value instead of 0,0. So, it looks for the address near the coordinates.

The street name should be separated by +.

The q parameter defines the location to be highlighted in the map. Some places in the map are identified by a label. In these situations, we can use the label to...