The Google Earth and Google Maps blog describes and shows how to find the latitude and longitude coordinates for a place using the software or the site.
Finding Latitude and Longitude on Google Maps and Google Earth
By Matt Rosenberg, About.com GuideSeptember 2, 2008
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I checked the Lat Long Blog and found instructions for finding Lat & Long using Google Earth, but not when using Google maps, which would be a bit more useful in my classroom and computer labs which do not have Google Earth installed. Can Google Maps do this?