CHAPTER 9
Using Bing Maps REST Services
In addition to the high-level components for building geospatially-aware applications we’ve described throughout this book, Microsoft provides lower-level building blocks for a lot of their services as representational state transfer (REST) services. Using the Bing Maps REST services, you can
- fetch the latitude and longitude for an address (geocode an address);
- determine the closest address to a latitude or longitude (reverse-geocode a point);
- determine the elevation at a point or get a list of elevations in a region;
- obtain a static image of a map rendered with an optional route or push pins;
- obtain a list ...
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