# How can i get lat and longtitude from Maps?

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-get-lat-and-longtitude-from-maps/67732 "2019-02-06T02:56:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jane/32/27575_2.png) [@jane](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jane)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-get-lat-and-longtitude-from-maps/67732/3 "2019-05-29T11:28:01Z")

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Hi there,

You can check out this post from @Mark to learn how to use the ‘event’ or ‘coordinate’ object from the Map.

> [@\[Solved\] How do the event blocks for the Map component work?](http://community.thunkable.com/t/map-component-event-block/73742/3):
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> Those blocks are triggered, respectively, when a user clicks on a map, long presses on a map (i.e. clicks and holds their finger down) or clicks on the the “bubble” that appears when they click on a marker. Unfortunately, there are a few known issues with the Map event blocks. One is that the onCalloutPress doesn’t appear to work at all. Another is that the output blocks for the events (e.g., "coordinate", "position" and "event") are either incorrectly named, unhelpfully named or simply unusa…

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