Is there a way to access the Bing Maps geocoding API via REST?

Question

Is there a way to access the Bing Maps API via REST to obtain geocoding information from an address? This is something that's trivial to do with Google and Yahoo; what I'm looking for is functionality like this, from Yahoo:

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

(Specifically, see the sample request URL on that page, but also imagine that URL with a simple "location" parameter rather than separate street, city, state, and zip parameters.)

I've found examples of using other parts of the Bing API via REST, but nothing that accesses the Maps API, or specifically, the geocoding functionality.

Answer 1

Apparently, there now is a Bing Maps REST API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701713.aspx

Answer 2

Here is an example with codes... http://zachsgeospatial.blogspot.com/2011/05/geocoding-via-bing-maps-rest-api.html I hope it will be helpful to you

Answer 3

As far as I know, the SOAP client is the only one provided to access the geocoding service. I was expecting a REST access too because yahoo and google allow that, but I didn't find anything about it. Note however that I didn't find anything mentioning it wasn't possible to access the Bing Maps web services via REST, so there may be one....

Answer 4

Use the Bing Maps Geocode Service: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966793.aspx