Posted by david on 28. January 2009 22:09
ultimately, the geocode service will be used to generate lat longs whenever my data only has a street address. I expect it will be automagic when the grid runs, or when the data is initially added to the db. for user generated points, this would be quick .. but what I am aiming for is being able to do bulk work … particularly because I have a table of 3-400 seattle parks with only addresses.
So, I’ve got the webservice setup … now i just gotta figure out how to use it at will. First test is a text box for a user entered address, output the lat and long to the page.
BTW, books247 on the kcls.org has an online copy of
Professional Web APIs: Google, eBay, Amazon.Com, MapPoint, FedEx by Denise M. Gosnell
Chapter 3 is a detailed step through of the MapPoint API, with detailed setup steps.
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