Working with the Google Location API

Question

Forgive me for my ignorance, but after several hours of searching, I\'m having little luck.

Anyway, I am attempting to write a small desktop application that will allow

Answer 1

Here is a sample code to get what you want

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Net;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;

namespace GoogleMapsSample
{
    public class GoogleMaps
    {

        /// 

        /// 
        /// 
        /// 
        /// 
        public static GeoResponse GetGeoCodedResults(string address)
        {
            string url = string.Format(
                    "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={0}®ion=dk&sensor=false",
                    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(address)
                    );
            var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
            request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip,deflate");
            request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate;
            DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(GeoResponse));
            var res = (GeoResponse)serializer.ReadObject(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
            return res;
        }


    }

and you helper class would be

 namespace GoogleMapsSample
{
    [DataContract]
    public class GeoResponse
    {
        [DataMember(Name = "status")]
        public string Status { get; set; }
        [DataMember(Name = "results")]
        public CResult[] Results { get; set; }

        [DataContract]
        public class CResult
        {
            [DataMember(Name = "geometry")]
            public CGeometry Geometry { get; set; }

            [DataContract]
            public class CGeometry
            {
                [DataMember(Name = "location")]
                public CLocation Location { get; set; }

                [DataContract]
                public class CLocation
                {
                    [DataMember(Name = "lat")]
                    public double Lat { get; set; }
                    [DataMember(Name = "lng")]
                    public double Lng { get; set; }
                }
            }
        }

        public GeoResponse()
        { }
    }


}

Then you can use this code in your control/winforms like this

            GeoResponse response = new GeoResponse();
            response = GoogleMaps.GetGeoCodedResults(TextBoxPostcode.Text);

and build the JS on the code behind using StringBuilder or anyting else