How to display Current Location and Nearby Places in windows phone application 8.1 using bing maps

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I am trying to develop a windows phone 8.1 application.(not silverlight). I need to locate my current location and also nearest location. (i.e geographic points of interest within a given proximity (e.g. 10km) filtered by category, such as "restaurants","petrol bunks","hotels" etc.)

With the help of BingMapsTask we can do it in silverlight applications. So coming to wp8.1 I tried using launch uri. But I cannot get the current location and nearby selected category with this uri

C#

await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("bingmaps:?lvl=10&where=restaurants", UriKind.Absolute));

How to get the current nearby list of places

Posted 16-Oct-15 3:47am

sandy.L

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Krunal Rohit · Answer 1 · 2015-10-16T03:56:00

First try to access your current location.
By using Windows.Devices.Geolocation, you can access that

C#

async private void GetLocation()
{
    var geolocator = new Geolocator();
    geolocator.DesiredAccuracyInMeters = 100;  // specify your range
    Geoposition position = await geolocator.GetGeopositionAsync();
    Geocoordinate coordinate = position.Coordinate;
    MessageBox.Show("Latitude = " + coordinate.Latitude + " Longitude = " + coordinate.Longitude); 
}

Refer this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj206956(v=vs.105).aspx[^]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj735578(v=vs.105).aspx[^]
Using GPS for Getting Location in Windows Phone 8[^]

Now map your nearby places using your location.

C#

BingMapsTask bingMapsTask = new BingMapsTask();
bingMapsTask.Center = new GeoCoordinate(position.Coordinate.Latitude, position.Coordinate.Longitude);
bingMapsTask.ZoomLevel = 2;
bingMapsTask.SearchTerm = "restaurant";
bingMapsTask.Show();

-KR