# How do you get the address using the location sensor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** beginner, locationsensor\ **Created:** [January 4, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573 "2020-01-04T14:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![L3on](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@L3on](https://community.thunkable.com/u/L3on)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/1 "2020-01-04T14:03:34Z")
Hi there, I want to use the location sensor to display the user’s address. For example: Example Road 1b, 12345 City Because with “location” i only get "[Object object] Latitude and longitude works fine. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/2 "2020-01-04T16:30:20Z")
Hi, use Google geocodind and reverse geocoding api. ---
**Author:** ![rem708](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@rem708](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rem708)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/3 "2020-01-04T16:39:24Z")
L2on, This is not an answer to your question but will help you understand actech’s comment. Watch this video out of a very good series of examples. It will give you some insight into location - Its a list of objects. Get used to objects as they are your friend and save you a lot of coding. ---
**Author:** ![neilmaseq8x8se](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/neilmaseq8x8se/32/92637_2.png) [@neilmaseq8x8se](https://community.thunkable.com/u/neilmaseq8x8se)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/4 "2021-01-21T06:53:09Z")
> [@actech](#): > > Hi, use Google geocodind and reverse geocoding api. Hello @actech, i need some help. I’m working on an app that is a combination of a chatting app, and a maps app. While i’ve got the chat part covered, I was wondering how would you get an address of a place according to its latitude and longitude. So i heard about this web api and went to the thunkable documentation and saw that you can retrieve data from a website and display it on your app, but that didn’t help. What i did understand was it could reduce the amt. of code you insert in your app. Can you give me a link to the reverse geocoding api? Since i’m a beginner when it comes to web api’s can you also send me a pic of the blocks if it’s not too much, so that it can display an address on a text whenever you click a position on the map. Thanks A trillion @actech ---
**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/5 "2021-01-22T11:55:22Z")
> an you give me a link to the reverse geocoding api? Hi, are you looking for this? - [Обзор API геокодирования  |  Geocoding API  |  Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/overview?hl=ru#ReverseGeocoding) ---
**Author:** ![neilmaseq8x8se](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/neilmaseq8x8se/32/92637_2.png) [@neilmaseq8x8se](https://community.thunkable.com/u/neilmaseq8x8se)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/6 "2021-01-23T03:49:17Z")
Thanks @actech. Unfortunately I’ve already visited this website. I’m a COMPLETE beginner in api’s and maps. so, even if i get all the info i need, i wont be able to put it in the app. So basically, I dont know what to do with api’s, until someone just told me you can retrieve information out of it, and I was like 'oh. kinda like a table or a database. In the description of a youtube video, that guy sent a link to a list of api’s so checked it out. there were different variation and I didnt know what to choose. Since I’m a beginner and all, during experimenting with map blocks, I came across ‘On Map Click (deprecated)’ and ‘On Map Long Click (deprecated)’ ? HUH ? I’m VERY confused. ---
**Author:** ![luv.ak.tech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/luv.ak.tech/32/104896_2.png) [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/7 "2021-01-23T03:53:07Z")
i guess you need to do a search see this - [Reverse Geocoding App - Get Location from Latitude/Longitude](http://community.thunkable.com/t/reverse-geocoding-app-get-location-from-latitude-longitude/82343) also - [Geolocation API with Opencage Data (NEW!)](http://community.thunkable.com/t/geolocation-api-with-opencage-data-new/228796) ---
**Author:** ![neilmaseq8x8se](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/neilmaseq8x8se/32/92637_2.png) [@neilmaseq8x8se](https://community.thunkable.com/u/neilmaseq8x8se)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/8 "2021-01-23T07:35:04Z")
Thanks @luv.ak.tech It really helped! These are the blocks that I added into the project ![Screen Shot 2021-01-23 at 1.09.56 pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/c/7ccddf2ab8e07a13e06037405a2e5f1d0414daa3.png) ![Screen Shot 2021-01-23 at 1.10.56 pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/a/4ac7caedb5fde355a1bf2c4e30989a7df3ea7e55.png) ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-do-you-get-the-address-using-the-location-sensor/391573/9 "2024-11-08T11:46:09Z")