How to find the latitude and longitude for international locations?

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Given just a zipcode (or postal code, for other international places) do you know of a simple way of getting the latitude, longitude and timezone of the location? A country code can be considered as well along with zip/postal code.

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There are a few ways. To find the Longitude and latitude: 1. Google map your address or whatever. 2. Don't move the map around. 3. Erase your address bar and copy and paste "javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));" without quotes in your address bar. 4. Those are the coordinates.

To find the timezone if you click "more info" when you look up a postal code/zip code on google maps, it will give you the time zone under the entry name

EDIT: Now that I think about it, the easiest way would be through Google Earth, as your pointer is always being tracked. Just enter the zip code and hover over the marker.

Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear with my question, I wanted to do this programatically. I can find the latitude/longitude based on US zipcodes but was wondering what would be the easiest and best way to find the same for international locations.

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