With the help of Latitude and Longitude, we can easily locate the places.

Using the below code, You can get the Latitude and Longitude from Address.

$address = 'Trivandrum';
$map=file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='.urlencode($address).'&sensor=false');
$map = json_decode($map, true);
if ($map['status'] = 'OK') {
  $latitude = $map['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat'];
  $longitude = $map['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng'];
}