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Hello

I have used Walt Cygan’s excellent code for Reverse Geocoding in a vb.net application, this works well on most occasions. I would like to be able on the occasions’ when no street address is found to find other details, for example is it possible to find the nearest Town or any other information relevant to the known latitude, longitude?

Regards
Joe

Hi,

You can use FindNearby to find nearby places.

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Hi Wilfried

Thanks for the response, I have tried the following:

objLoc = objMap.GetLocation(rs.Fields("latitude").Value, rs.Fields("longitude").Value, 1)
objResults = objLoc.FindNearby(1.5)
If objResults.Count > 0 Then MsgBox(objResults(1).Name)

The latitude = 51.12682
The longitude = -1.32759

There is a Village and a major road within the selected radius, I would be happy to return either as a result.

Regards
Joe

Hi Joe,

Oups, I think FindNearby only returns points of interest and pushpins. So that is not what you wants. Sorry to give you incorrect information

You have 2 alternatives. First the easy and fast one:

- Go higher in Altitude. Eventually in 2 steps. If Altitude is higher lots of points are visible at same location (cities / streets)..

- scan the area around the position. This is very accurate but take a lot of time.

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rgds, Wilfried Mestdagh
www.mestdagh.biz
www.comfortsoftware.be
MapPoint coding demo
Order MapPoint 2009 with Routing and User Tools Spreadsheet

Hi Wilfried

I have used your suggested method and incremented the altitude for records who do not return a known address. This has resolved the problem.

Regards
Joe