Is there a way to get a place name based on coordinates?

bing-maps, c#, coordinates, geolocation, windows-store-apps

Solution

I usually store the latitude/longitude coordinates and then use GMaps to look up the location, then "on a best effort basis" - look up the place's name using the address - again via Google Maps.

static string baseUri = 
  "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?latlng={0},{1}&sensor=false";
string location = string.Empty;

public static void RetrieveFormatedAddress(string lat, string lng)
{
    string requestUri = string.Format(baseUri, lat, lng);

    using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
    {
        string result = wc.DownloadString(requestUri);
        var xmlElm = XElement.Parse(result);
        var status = (from elm in xmlElm.Descendants() where 
            elm.Name == "status" select elm).FirstOrDefault();
        if (status.Value.ToLower() == "ok")
        {
            var res = (from elm in xmlElm.Descendants() where 
                elm.Name == "formatted_address" select elm).FirstOrDefault();
            requestUri = res.Value;
        }
    }
}

Edit:

Here's a simple version of the reverse:

public static Coordinate GetCoordinates(string region)
{
    using (var client = new WebClient())
    {

        string uri = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q='" + region + 
          "'&output=csv&key=sadfwet56346tyeryhretu6434tertertreyeryeryE1";

        string[] geocodeInfo = client.DownloadString(uri).Split(',');

        return new Coordinate(Convert.ToDouble(geocodeInfo[2]), 
                   Convert.ToDouble(geocodeInfo[3]));
    }
}

public struct Coordinate
{
    private double lat;
    private double lng;

    public Coordinate(double latitude, double longitude)
    {
        lat = latitude;
        lng = longitude;

    }

    public double Latitude { get { return lat; } set { lat = value; } }
    public double Longitude { get { return lng; } set { lng = value; } }

}

Problem

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