在WP7 Bing Maps上搜索字符串

Question

Is it possible to make a query to the Bing Maps with a string (Being a location) ?

I have a user entered field, then I want the user to be able to press a button and then a certain string is put into Bing maps (Maybe tombstone my app meanwhile?) Something like

string UserLocation = "Wall Street New York";
BingMapsApi.Search(UserLocation);

Answer 1

You can query Bing maps via the Bing Maps Rest API , it sounds like you want to find a location via a search string . For example, this query find the Microsoft offices;

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/1%20Microsoft%20Way%20Redmond%20WA%2098052?o=xml&key=BingMapsKey

Answer 2

Use the maps: parameter, and use a WebBrowserTask to navigate to the result, as if it were a URL.

string location = "maps:" + SelectedLocation.Street + " " + SelectedLocation.PostalCode;
location = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(location);
WebBrowserTask task = new WebBrowserTask();
task.URL = location;
task.Show();