Geocoding

Question

Hi

I am using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Bing.Geocoder to do geocoding in my silverlight app. It returns results if the address is a correct match. Is there a way to return results when I enter a wrong address?

For Example:
If I enter this address "380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373" a results are returned.
If I enter this address "380 New York Street" the results are null. Instead on showing null I Want to implement something similar to http://www.bing.com/maps or maps.google.com which actually suggest a list of addresses .

Can anyone shed some light on this?

IgressT · Answer

Generally multiple matches will be returned. My guess is that search is so generic that it would generate 1000s of matches (there's quite a lot of New York Streets around the world), that it can't even give you a best guess estimate.
Try for instance to search for "Redlands", and you should get multiple results back, where the first one is usually the largest city/place.

Thanks for your insight

SomeGISGuy · Answer

Generally multiple matches will be returned. My guess is that search is so generic that it would generate 1000s of matches (there's quite a lot of New York Streets around the world), that it can't even give you a best guess estimate.
Try for instance to search for "Redlands", and you should get multiple results back, where the first one is usually the largest city/place.

IgressT · Answer

Hi

I am using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Bing.Geocoder to do geocoding in my silverlight app. It returns results if the address is a correct match. Is there a way to return results when I enter a wrong address?

For Example:
If I enter this address "380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373" a results are returned.
If I enter this address "380 New York Street" the results are null. Instead on showing null I Want to implement something similar to http://www.bing.com/maps or maps.google.com which actually suggest a list of addresses .

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Locator task can be used but is there a way to do that using the GeoCoder