address coordinates

address coordinates

• RayCan

  Sure. Download the SDK (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink LinkID=23505). In the included samples, look in the Core Functionality\Find Address sample. I think that's the one, though it's been a while since I've messed with the samples.

  If you're geocoding a whole bunch of addresses, the BatchGeocodeSpecification might be more to your liking. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/mappointsdk/html/M_Namespace_CustomerDataService_StartBatchGeocode.asp and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/mappointsdk/html/T_Namespace_BatchGeocodeSpecification.asp.

  
  

• David Nielsen

  Or checkout these nice bit of code to do it using the seach behind local.live.com

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=776776&SiteID=1

  John.

  
  
  

• issarto

  i am achieving this by combining the Google Earth API's geocoder method with VE for all display and markup.
  if you have a googleearth api key, you can do this easily.
  first load the geocoder:
  function loadGoogleMapAPI() {
  if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
  //add the google geocoder
  gcoder = new GClientGeocoder();
  }
  }//end function
  
  then do dosomething like this
  gcoder.getLocations(<some address>, createApprovalPinLatLong);
  
  your address is just an address (street num, city, state, zip, etc) and the second param is a function to handle the response. The response object is a JSON object that can be parsed like so:
  
  function createApprovalPinLatLong(response){
  if (!response || response.Status.code != 200) {
  alert("Sorry, we were unable to geocode that address");
  } else {
  place = response.Placemark[0];
  var myLat=place.Point.coordinates[1];
  var myLon=place.Point.coordinates[0];
  var latLong=myLat+","+myLon;
  //create your VE LatLong object
  var myVELatLon = new VELatLong(myLat,myLon);
  //pass the VElatlong object to the pin creator function
  createMyVEPin(myVELatLon);
  }
  
  mashing the mashups.
  
  
  

• SPEEDY9123

  I see .. I could acctually get the coordinates from Find()'s call back fundtion with hiding the map while Find() is plotting to the map .. but the thing is when an address is not found, map.Find() would return a popup window says not found or closest address was found ..  do u know is there any way to detect address is not found or a closest address was returned in my call back function, so i can alert my own message
  
  
  Thanks very much
  
  

• Lhheah

  You can't do this in VE right now--all place finds result in the adress getting shown on the map. You can use the MapPoint Web Service to this, however.

  
  

• Rocky79

  Hi Caleb T,

  Have you got any example code as too how to achieve this using MapPoint Web Service

  Regards,

  John

  
  
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