I am looking for the ability in C# .Net to find the address from an array of Latitudes and Longitudes. My array would have something like the following (39.96481959995778, -83.00803899765015),(39.96575701532093, -83.00681591033936). From the coordinates i would get back all the address within that area. i appreciate any help with this.
This is called as Reverse-GeoCoding. You need to use a third party webservice (free or paid) that returns the user addresses on the basis of Lat/Long. Google has one like this See this on how to use google for this purpose.GEO CODING but there are other such services as well. You find one that is right for you. If you are using it in a commercial environment i guess you will have to purchase a license for that.
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I am working on a Xamarin iOS project trying to display a list of the most likely locations based on the user's GPS coordinates using either the Place Picker or GMSPlacePickerViewController from the google maps API, as shown in this Swift tutorial.
However I can't seem to find any decent tutorials using C#. I don't want to display the map to users I simply want to retrieve the list of most likely locations based on the coordinates.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated as I'm at a bit of a loss about how to use the google maps API to achieve this.
Okay answering this for anyone coming after me and trying to do something similar.After lots of searching I have realised it is possible to use the nearbySearch method from the Google Places API Web Service to retrieve a list of addresses near particular coordinates within a specific radius (in metres). You can optionally specify the type of addresses you are searching for, e.g. Restaurants.
Not sure how I missed this but there is a Place Search demo at the bottom of this page;
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/
Is there a way to programatically upload an image file to search in Google, and then downloading the first one (the one with best resolution)?
EDIT: The Google Search API would not work for me, as I would have much more than 100 requests per day, and I am not willing to pay, since I am not a company
Yes, there is. The Google Custom Search API allows you to submit queries (including images) and retrieve results programmatically. There are even client libraries available for multiple languages.
EDIT: After OP changed his question, basically saying that he doesn't want to use the Google API, I can only refer to this(a bit outdated) question and quote the Google Terms of Service:
1.4 Appropriate Conduct. You shall not, and shall not allow any third party to: ... (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, or
impressions of or clicks on Results, through any automated, deceptive,
fraudulent or other invalid means (including, but not limited to,
click spam, robots, macro programs, and Internet agents);
So to recap, it is possible, but it is only legal via the API I linked above.
I'm working on a program in Visual C#.NET and I need some help.
I need it to be able to take in some text through a text box, then somehow send that text to google, and bring back the resulting URLs (not the full results, just the URLs) and then display those in my program. How would I do that?
Use the WebClient class to send the query to Google and read the response.
Alternatively, use a .NET library that interacts with the Google search API, like this one (this was just the first Google result).
There are also REST libraries for .NET, if you go with the newer custom search.
Unfortunately the Google Web Search API is deprecated and no longer available. However the next best thing IMO is Google Custom Search Engine.
I'm working on an xbl stat grabber. I have a problem I dont understand how to get the "gamer card"
Heres an example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HA-uz_v6A0&feature=related
I already have the avatar but I don't get how you can grab the stats and recent games...
You need access to the Xbox Live API, I think you have to apply to Microsoft to get on their 'Community Developer' programme, although it's a bit hazy on the site as to whether they are accepting applications or not.
One kind fellow (who I think is a Microsoft employee) saw that this was a terrible oversight from his employers decided to offer as web service that plugged into the Xbox Live network so you can pull statistics down, you can find info about it and a website here: -
http://duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data
It's very comprehensive and should give you all the data you need (Gamerscore, current status, last game played etc)
EDIT: Extra stuff that might help
I'm not too familiar with C# but the process of using the service would be to do the following in your application: -
Construct your URL with a/your gamertag as the argument
Use some URL/Networking API (C#/.NET must have something like this somewhere) to load the URL and retrieve the contents. This should return you a big string containing a bunch of XML
Parse the XML into your application using some sort of XML parsing API (again, I'd imagine C#/.NET has these things built into the framework)
From the looks of the program, the gamercard info looks as if it is just an embedding based upon the gamer tag. You can find info on embedding your Xbox Live gamercard here.
The video author said the Halo stat information is coming courtesy of a site called HaloCharts.com. I don't know if he is embedding the information, perhaps reading an RSS feed, or if he is extracting data from the HTML.
I have a project that has a list of gps coordinates. I would like to find a way to make a simple map of those coordinates (possibly just one at a time). The map should have basic street info.
This part of our project is pretty simple so I don't think it needs to be an exceptionally feature rich product. This also means it shouldn't be really expensive.
What is a good product to achieve this?
edit: This is a desktop app where internet connectivity will probably not be available.
Google Maps is great for this.
If this is a desktop app with internet access you could still host an IE control and show it there.
EDIT: If this is a desktop app without internet access you'll have to buy something like Microsoft Streets & Trips. I don't know if it has reusable controls. You probably have to buy something more expensive to get that. Applications of this nature often fall under the category "GIS". Try searching Google for that.
Sharpmap is open source project written in C# and released under LGPL. To quote first line from page:
SharpMap is an easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications.
I'd go with this solution
Map Rendering: SharpMap
Geometry operations: NetTopologySuite
Map data store: shapefiles in your file system or PostGis over PostgreSQL
Map data itself: the easiest way may be extracting from OpenStreetMaps data. Here, for example you can download shapefiles for your desired location
Everyting is open source (more or less, check the licenses) and works fine on windows.
Hope it helps
ESRI has an API. They have javascript, silverlight,wpf, and flash. they may have more. ESRI is pretty much the standard in mapping.