I'm working on windows phone 8 app, but i can't find, how to get coordinates form address. Problem is, i have my coordiantes, and i need to calculate distance between me and some address. windows phone 8 is not documented that much, so please help me. What you're looking for is called "geocoding": Converting an address to GeoCoordinate. As was mentioned before you can use Google and Bing on WP7 to achieve that. On windows phone 8 Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding are supported as part of the framework. You can read an overview to GeoCoding at this Nokia intro article (under "Geocoding") and a