How to implement google maps to search by street name, city?

Question

I need search functionality like this site. But I am wondering how can I get coordinates from google api by street name?

Answer 1

Google Geocoding API

You can enter in an address and it will return the Lat/long co-ordinates in a Json response or XML etc

You can read about it here:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/