Bing Maps not finding cities in the UK

Question

I'm having a problem with my store finder app finding cities in the uk. e.g Manchester

Is there a way to set the map locality so that bing maps recognizes UK city and town names?

Answer 1

Works fine for me. What are you using - the REST Locations API? The SOAP Find service? Both of these allow you to specify a Country/Region property that will narrow down a search to a particular territory.

Are you getting no records found, or a "Manchester" somewhere else?

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Answer 2

I'm using REST Locations API. It works if I place 'uk' at the end of the city name but don't want to do that. How can I specify the country?

Answer 3

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations?locality=Manchester&countryRegion=UK&key=BINGMAPSKEY

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Answer 4

Hi

Having trouble specifying the country/region property in my url request.

Could you show me how I would include '&countryRegion=UK' into my URL request below.

Thanks Geoff

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var geocodeRequest = "http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/"
       + document.getElementById('address').value
       + "?en-GB&"
       + "?output=json"
       + "&jsonp=GeocodeCallback"
       + "&key=" + BingMapsKey;