Getting Location Name from Longitude and Latitude in BingMap

Question

I am a WP7 developer. I have longitude and latitude of a location. Is there anyway to get the info the location defined by the coordinate ie longitude and latitude. Thank yo

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this via the Bing Maps REST API, you need to perform a reverse geocode. This is done by GET-ing the following request:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/47.64054,-122.12934?o=xml&key=BingMapsKey

Which will return the address in XML format:

  
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          1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
          
            47.640568390488625
            -122.1293731033802
          
          
            47.636705672917948
            -122.137016420622
            47.6444311080593
            -122.1217297861384
          
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            1 Microsoft Way
            WA
            King Co.
            United States
            1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
            Redmond
            98052
          
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            47.640568390488625
            -122.1293731033802
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