Getting list of place names for WP7
Sorry if this is a stupid question or if it has already been answered, but I am inexperienced with this and need advice.
Basically, I am developing a Windows Phone 7 app that contains an AutoCompleteBox. The idea is that when the user enters a name as a place (for example, any string of an address, be it a full address or just a street, city, city, etc.), AutoCompleteBox will show possible suggestions.
I already have an AutoCompleteBox hosted in my application with a sample ItemsSource that only contains 3 lines saying London, Birmingham and Manchester. The only thing I need to do is connect the application to a web service that returns a list of place names.
What APIs can do this? Which one is the best to use for Windows Phone 7? If possible, I would prefer to use the one that uses Google Maps as this app is built on a website with a similar input field that connects to the Google Maps API.
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Yes, this can be done using the Google Maps AutoComplete API:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/autocomplete
Just use an instance WebClient
to make a request with the url you want, then parse the returned XML (using Linq-to-XML).
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