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For probably any place on Earth, you can search it in Google Maps, make right-click, pick the option "What's here" and you get GPS coordinates.

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If I don't want to use Google Maps API, is there an alternative open API to get GPS coordinates by address? To be less broad, say in Germany?

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  • Hi @J. Doe, try searching this site for questions related to "geocoding". You will see answers to posts like this one (i.e. try OpenStreetMap as an alternative to Google Maps).
    – sboysel
    Dec 14, 2019 at 22:04

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You can use Nominatim which is a geocoding search engine built on Open Street Map (OSM) data.

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=Zentralbibliothek+Z%C3%BCrich

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Click "details" --> https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=84442764 and you'll see latitude/longitude and metadata of the entry


You can either use an API, or run your own Nominatim server (which can be done for individual countries).

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/Overview/

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