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I'm currently using Bing's SOAP Search Service in order to get points of interest around a certain location. However, the return items only have a GeoCoordinate for the location, not an address.

The program is a WP7 app that maps POI, so I'd also like to show the address of the places found to the user. Is the only way to do this to make subsequent calls to Bing's Geocode service for each of the lat/long results? This seems like it would be time consuming and inefficient unless I could do a batch geocode call.

Thanks!

codechinchilla
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The framework teasingly includes the CivicAddressResolver, which would appear to perform this task for us, but unfortunately, the documentation also states:

This class is not implemented in the current release.

However, all is not lost. You can use the same Bing search service that you are already using to reverse geocode a location by sending a ReverseGeocodeRequest as described in the Developing a Silverlight Application Using Bing Maps SOAP Services under the Reverse Geocoding section.

For another detailed walkthrough (including code), take a look at Nick Harris' blog post: How to Reverse Geocode a Location to an Address on Windows Phone 7

Derek Lakin
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  • Hopefully they'll implement the CivicAddressResolver in the future - I actually realized I was not casting the SearchResultBase class to BusinessSearchResult, which actually gives you the address. – codechinchilla Feb 24 '11 at 14:30
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After looking closer, I realized I needed to cast the SearchResultBase result I was getting back to BusinessSearchResult, which gave an address back.

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