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If the Virtual Earth control has no post code lookup facility then you will have to get the information from an external database.<br />
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I know when you run an address/post code search on Live Maps it refers to the location by latitude and longitude in the &quot;cp&quot; query string variable.when you click on share.<br />
There may be a way of doing this programatically in order to get the information you require.
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If the Virtual Earth control has no post code lookup facility then you will have to get the information from an external database.

I know when you run an address/post code search on Live Maps it refers to the location by latitude and longitude in the "cp" query string variable.when you click on share.
There may be a way of doing this programatically in order to get the information you require.

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Yea I have been looking for an external service.<br />
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I'm making a request to geocoder.ca for now.<br />
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It seems to be working with the exception that the look ups are a little inaccurate sometimes.<br />

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Yea I have been looking for an external service.

I'm making a request to geocoder.ca for now.

It seems to be working with the exception that the look ups are a little inaccurate sometimes.


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I have a database with postal code and address fields in a user table. &nbsp;I want to plot these into a Virtual Earth Map control in Visual Studio but it seems like I can only give it a longitude/latitude as the parameters.<br />
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This table grows dynamically so I can't statically plot all the long/lat data myself in the table.<br />
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Is there a way that I can programatically (C#) get the long/lat from just a postal/zip code or address string before creating the markers on the maps?
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I have a database with postal code and address fields in a user table.  I want to plot these into a Virtual Earth Map control in Visual Studio but it seems like I can only give it a longitude/latitude as the parameters.

This table grows dynamically so I can't statically plot all the long/lat data myself in the table.

Is there a way that I can programatically (C#) get the long/lat from just a postal/zip code or address string before creating the markers on the maps?

Getting latitude and longitude from an address/postal code string

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