CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windows-phone-8
PushCode
PushCode

Reputation: 1439

How to find the name of current place in windows phone 8?

I am able to get the latitude and longitude using Geoposition class.How can I find the name of the current location in windows phone 8?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 666

Answers (2)

anderZubi
anderZubi

Reputation: 6424

You have a built-in API for reverse geocoding in Windows Phone 8. You can do it as follows, for example, to ghet the name of the city:

string address;
ReverseGeocodeQuery query = new ReverseGeocodeQuery();
query.GeoCoordinate = yourGeoCoordinateObject;
query.QueryCompleted += (s, e) =>
   {
        if (e.Error != null)
            return;

        address = e.Result[0].Information.Address.City;
    };
query.QueryAsync();

Upvotes: 3

user1864610
user1864610

Reputation:

This is known as Reverse Geocoding. Google offer this as part of their Geocoding API. The specific reference is here

You can make a call to their API with a simple HTTP request:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&sensor=true

And they'll return a list of human-readable names in JSON format.

Upvotes: 1

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