Working with British Postcodes

[Jake Lyon]

Hi Telerik 

I have been looking at your trial program specifically using the Charting gauge's and the map 

one thing im struggling to figure out is how to map British postcodes as points on the map.

do you know of any reading or have anything provided to see how to map these, 

if i can get these working i may be able to swing my boss into buying the controls for our team

JAke

[Jake Lyon]

its okay now figured it out using a third party party postcode to Lat long table

[Andrey]

Hello Jake Lyon,

You can use geocoding for this purposes. The code below demonstrate how it can be done:

public partial class MainPage : UserControl
{
    private BingGeocodeProvider geocodeProvider;
    private Location geocodeLocation;

    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void WindowLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        // Init geocode provider.
        geocodeProvider = new BingGeocodeProvider()
        {
            ApplicationId = "Your Bing Application ID",
            MapControl = this.radMap
        };
        geocodeProvider.GeocodeCompleted += new EventHandler<GeocodeCompletedEventArgs>(Provider_GeocodeCompleted);
    }


    private void BeginGeocodingRequest()
    {
        Address address = new Address()
        {
            CountryRegion = "UK",
            PostalCode = "LS17 6HA"
        };

        GeocodeRequest geocodeRequest = new GeocodeRequest()
        {
            Address = address
        };
        this.geocodeProvider.GeocodeAsync(geocodeRequest);
    }

    private void Provider_GeocodeCompleted(object sender, GeocodeCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        GeocodeResponse response = e.Response;
        if (response.Results.Count > 0)
        {
            this.radMap.SetView(response.Results[0].BestView);

            this.informationLayer.ItemsSource = response.Results[0].Locations;
        }
    }
}

Regards,
Andrey Murzov
the Telerik team

[Jake Lyon]

private void Provider_GeocodeCompleted(object sender, GeocodeCompletedEventArgs e)

{

GeocodeResponse response = e.Response;

if (response.Results.Count > 0)

{

this.radMap.SetView(response.Results[0].BestView);

this.informationLayer.ItemsSource = response.Results[0].Locations;

}

}

hi thanks for your response 

quick question regarding informationLayer above, do you have an example on what this may look like?

Edit: Again I have found this within the XAML

[Andrey]

Hi Jake Lyon,

The InformationLayer is a part of the RadMap control list. It is designed to put geographically positioned framework elements over the map. You can find examples of the information layer using in the our demo application.

Best wishes,
Andrey Murzov
the Telerik team

[Mick D.]

Brilliant !

Thanks for posting solution - solved my problem as well

Mick