title: Google's GeoCode Convert City, STATE into Latitude Longitude
body: <p>The following code works asynchronously.  I only have it set up to convert a City, State into latitude and longitude.  That value is then alerted.</p>
  
  <p>How can I write a function that actually returns these values?</p>
  
  <pre><code>var map;
  var geocoder;
  
  function initialize() {
  
    geocoder = new GClientGeocoder();
  
  }
  
  // addAddressToMap() is called when the geocoder returns an
  // answer.  It adds a marker to the map with an open info window
  // showing the nicely formatted version of the address and the country code.
  function addAddressToMap(response) {
    //map.clearOverlays();
    if (!response || response.Status.code != 200) {
      alert("Sorry, we were unable to geocode that address");
    } else {
      place = response.Placemark[0];
  
      latitude = place.Point.coordinates[0];
      longitude = place.Point.coordinates[1];
  
      alert("Latitude " + latitude + " Longitude" + longitude);
  
    }
  }
  
  function showLocation(address) {
    geocoder.getLocations(address, addAddressToMap);
  }
  </code></pre>