Find location with address input from search box

Question

I tried to find an answer in 2 days in forums however there are  no answer fit with me. I want to create a webpage similar to http://www.bing.com/maps. I mean the webpage that has a search box, a map,so when you type a location in search box and press enter then the map will show you the place. I created a map but it only can search by query, I can't create a search box for people to input their location.

Can someones please helps me ?

p/s: If you have code for search box, could you share me ? thanks a lot

Answer 1

Not really sure if I understand your issue. If you have a textbox for user input you can then pass that into the Bing Maps REST Geocoding service as a query. This will perform the goeocde for you. Users can pass in addresses or coordinates and it will show them up on the map. If you can to take it a step further you can also tie in the Bing PhoneBook service and have your application call that if no results are returned by the Bing Maps REST geocoding service. Here is an article to get you started: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg427601.aspx

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