# encoding: ascii
# api: powershell
# title: Find-GeoCode
# description: A quick demonstration of using the MapPoint (aka Bing Maps?) web services to get addresses from Lat,Long pairs and vice-versa. Requires you to sign up for (at least) the free developer account in order to use the API.
# version: 0.1
# type: function
# author: Joel Bennett
# license: CC0
# function: Find-ReverseGeoCode
# x-poshcode-id: 1490
# x-archived: 2014-12-03T03:24:02
# x-published: 2009-11-25T22:29:00
#
#
$mappoint = New-WebServiceProxy http://staging.mappoint.net/standard-30/mappoint.wsdl -Namespace MapPoint
$FindService = new-object MapPoint.FindServiceSoap
# You need an account, sign up here: https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup
$FindService.Credentials = Get-Credential
function Find-ReverseGeoCode( [double]$Latitude, [double]$longitude, [switch]$force )
{
$Coords = new-object MapPoint.LatLong
$Coords.Latitude = $Latitude
$Coords.Longitude = $longitude
$Locations = $FindService.GetLocationInfo( $Coords, "MapPoint.NA", $null)
if($force) {
return $Locations
} elseif($Locations[0].Address) {
return $Locations[0].Address # .FormattedAddress + " - " + $Locations[0].Address.CountryRegion
} else {
return $Locations | ?{ $_.Entity.TypeName -eq "PopulatedPlace" } # | %{ $_.Entity.DisplayName }
}
}
function Find-GeoCode( $address, $country = "US" )
{
$spec = new-object MapPoint.FindAddressSpecification
$spec.DataSourceName = "MapPoint.NA"
$spec.InputAddress = $FindService.ParseAddress( $address, $country )
$Found = $FindService.FindAddress( $spec )
if($Found.NumberFound) {
$found.Results | Select -expand FoundLocation | Select -Expand LatLong
}
# if($Found.NumberFound -gt 1) {
# $found.Results| Select -expand FoundLocation | Select -Expand Address
# }
}
## This is how non-geography geeks think of them:
Set-Alias Find-Address Find-ReverseGeoCode
Set-Alias Find-Coordinates Find-GeoCode