title: How to acces a returned value from a Google Maps Geocoder
body: <pre><code>geocoder.geocode( { 'address': full_address}, function(results, status) {
      lat = results[0].geometry.location.lat();
      lng = results[0].geometry.location.lng();
      alert(lat); // works perfectly
  });
  alert(lat); // doesn't return anything
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How come the last alert outside the object doesn't return anything? Anyone know how to fix this?</p>