Mapping AdWords Geo Targets

[Kevin Caragher]

My company is currently doing a lot of work in AdWords and the more conversions we are seeing from our clients campaigns, the more we need to have visible data.  So we are looking to map these conversions within a map to the areas in which the PPC campaigns are targeting.  We're also looking at converting zips within our system to Geo Target Cities within Google is becoming quite complex.  We are looking to match up US zip codes with the Google AdWords Geo Targeted Cities.  Since each Geo Target City is mapped within the AdWords UI, we believe there might be some long/lat coordinates so we can actually match these up with zips in our system.  

The question is does anybody out there know if the long/lat coordinates are in fact available?  Our rep said they do not know so if anybody in the community has any insight it'd be greatly appreciated.

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Kevin, 

You can use LocationCriterionService to retrieve the details of the location criteria as specified in the selector. You can then use the parentLocations returned for each criteria to get the criterion Id of the city. The LookupLocation Java example demonstrates how to use this service. Example code in other languages is provided here. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.