Section 6.8. Where Are We?

6.8. Where Are We?

Find Service is one of the core components of the MapPoint Web Service, providing many features such as finding places, addresses, and points of interest around a given location. Find Service also provides a way to convert any latitude/longitude information to an entity that contains the geographic information about that given point; it also provides necessary tools to parse addresses to see whether a given string is a place or an address so that you can call the appropriate method to find information.

Since Find Service methods are web service methods, it is important to think about performance optimization and asynchronous programming patters where applicable. Finally, Find Service also provides a way to get information in a specific localized language (among the 10 supported languages).

In the next chapter, we'll look at MapPoint Web Service Route and Render Service components.