Comments on: Fetching Latitude and Longitude Co-ordinates for Addresses using PowerShell

By: Carl Williams

Carl Williams — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:55:11 +0000

Haha, pretty slick Rob. Good job.

By: Brian Livingston

Brian Livingston — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:31:18 +0000

Great post. I am trying to update the latitude/longitude via powershell but can’t get it to work. I am basically hitting the bing service with an address retrieving the longitude/latitude then trying to assign those values to the geocode for the list object I am working with.
Here is a small snippet of my code I am testing with.
$LIST_ITEM_TO_UPDATE[‘Geo Location’].Latitude = 10
$LIST_ITEM_TO_UPDATE[‘Geo Location’].Longitude = 10
$LIST_ITEM_TO_UPDATE.update()

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:17:00 +0000

Srinivas,
If php lets you call web services, you should be able to translate the code easily enough. It’s been too long since I did php for me to be able to help you.
Rob

By: srinivas

srinivas — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:42:25 +0000

hi,
Fetching Latitude and Longitude Co-ordinates for Addresses using php.

By: Pushkar

Pushkar — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:37:05 +0000

Thanks a lot. 🙂

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:54:46 +0000

Yes, absolutely. Use the geography type in SQL, and put a spatial index on the field. Then you can easily use the functions such as STDistance to work out the closest, and so on.

By: Pushkar

Pushkar — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:47:43 +0000

Hello Rob,
I am using spatial database to create tiles over Bing maps and plot all restaurants/gas stations etc. in a specific area.
Can we have something on DB side(StoredProc or something) to locate places of interest in specific radius of a specified lat/long?
Thanks.

By: Matt Penner

Matt Penner — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:39:49 +0000

Hey Rob,
Great article. I used to do this in my last job a few years ago with the Google Maps API before Bing Maps was around.
I don’t know about now, but back then the Google API limited geocoding to one about every couple of seconds. This way they weren’t flooded with users trying to geocode a thousand person mailing list through their API.
Does Bing not have any sort of limit on the amount or frequency of addresses you can geocode?
Thanks!
Matt Penner

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Mon, 24 May 2010 02:09:21 +0000

Ah – thanks Jacques. That was a typo. Fixed now. Should’ve been $wsgrc
Rob

By: Jacques Willemen

Jacques Willemen — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:55:10 +0000

Hi Rob,
I try to imitate what you do because it seems very nice,
but I am not sure about the line:
$wsgr.Credentials = $wsgrb
because the variable $wsgrb is not defined before.
I guess that is why I get an error message:
‘Exception calling "Geocode" with "1" argument(s): "Credentials are either invalid or unspecified."’
Or…?
Greetings from Breda, Netherlands