My Platform: Silverlight Windows Phone 7 Soap Services Via WCF.
If you go to Bing Maps on the Web and click on Search Businesses you get the "Category Property Value Table" that starts with Arts & Entertainment. I realize that these top categories can't be used for filtering.
Then, if you click on "Food & Dining" you get the 8 Food & Dining categories starting with Bakeries. These have Value IDs so they can be used to filter on.
Then, if you click on "Restaurants" you get a big long list of Restaurants but I can't find that table anywhere in the Bing Documentation. So my first question is: Where is the Restaurants table?
Now,lets say that I am writing a POI app on the Phone that allows POI identification exactly as does Bing Maps on the Web. I could (1) copy all of these tables and put them in my code or (2) I could download them at run time so if Bing changed the
tables my app would adjust automatically.
So, my big question is: How can (or can I) get this whole POI hierarechy via SOAP services? If I can't get it (at run time) from SOAP services is there another way?
Thanks,
Dean
.net Developer
