VC++ programmer
Mappoint2006

Hello guys,

I'm able to get the address from a location, but sometimes I don't get an address at all. So when I look for the second result of founded locations, than I get a highway address ( actually just a number ). Even if continue iterating all the founded addresses I get only highway addresses. I've seen an example of how to get the nearest address, but it's written in VB that confuses me to understand what it's really going on.

Maybe somebody can give me a simple explanation in plain english or simple general code. I assume I need to create another Location near my location and than try to get the address? If somebody has a link to an article just post it plz. Thank you.

Hi,

Possible your altitude is too high. Try to set it to 1 km or something.

Hi Wilfried,

Thanx for your reply, yesterday I couldn't get to Mappoint website (maybe server was down?). All my pushpins are set at 1km of Altitude (=1), but it's really strange. Sometimes I get for the same location an address and sometimes not. I can explain you how I did it: I get two positions from two targets, these are fixed because the vehicles don't move. So when I start my app, I get one with an address and the other not. When I close my app and start again, the other target which had not address has now an address and the other not. And I swear it's not I've coded wrong, cause both position will be processed by the same function for resolving the address.

So could it be that getting the address doesn't work always right with Mappoint?

But suppose my pushpin is in an area with no address, how can I get the nearest address, can you give me a link to an article please?

By the MapPoint web site do you mean MP2Kmag? yes it was down sorry, my ISP did some "scheduled maintenance" over the weekend which involved power cycling all the machines and the server that MP2Kmag is on is one that didn't come back up immediately. I guess it took them a while to work through all the machines that needed to be booted back up. Sorry about it. I am going to migrate the site to a better ISP.

Here's a few articles on reverse geocoding and then a more recent one by Wilfried Mestdagh that using reverse geocoding --


Reverse Geocoding with MapPoint 2002
Reverse Geocoding, Another Method
Reverse Geocoding, Pt. III

Snap to a Road

hope this helps.

Eric

Hi Eric,

I don't know if mp2kmag.com is down often, but it's not that dramatic to me and maybe for others here also. But I guess it was down for whole day, than you can put questions about it.

Thank you for the linx