How to convert an address to a latitude/longitude?

Question

How would I go about converting an address or city to a latitude/longitude? Are there commercial outfits I can \"rent\" this service from? This would be used in a commercial

Answer 1

you can use bing maps soap services, where you can reference reverse geocode service to find lat/long from address here is the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc980922.aspx