If you want the GPS coordinates, you clearly need a GPS receiver. There is a nice discussion on how to communicate with external hardware here:

http://www.mathworks.it/company/newsletters/articles/configuring-and-controlling-external-hardware-in-matlab.html

An alternative would be to input an address, and retrieve the GPS coordinates using some online web service. This is discussed in more detail here:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/83449-get-gps-location-from-coordinates

Thanks for your answer, but what if I don't want to connect any hardware?

I was thinking more about using something like the location services of web browsers (i.e. W3C Geolocation API ).

Dear Miguel,

You can get the IP of your machine from Matlab.

For instace:

* urlread('http://www.whatismyip.com/') and the parse the file or even easier

* urlread(' http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp')

Then you can find the location of the IP using web services.

Again urlread allows you to read resources available on the web.

Regards

Edoardo

If I type :

urlread(' http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp')

Then I get:

Error using urlreadwrite (line 93)

The server did not find a resource to match this request.

If I use urlread('http://www.whatismyip.com/') , I can't find my IP in the html text file that I get back.