Displaying a map location?

[Kevin]

Hi All,

OK, I don't know if this is actually where I should be
posting this question, but this is the only place where I
think I'll be able to find some sort of answer.

I would like to develop and application in C# Winforms,
that ca display portions of a map of a country. So in
other words if I select a street name, or city it must be
able to locate that street/city on a map and display it to
the user. My problem is how do I turn that sort of thing
into code? I don't know how to relate the search to a
position on a map. Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

Thanks alot for any replies
Kevin

[Morten Wennevik]

Re: Displaying a map location?

I suspect you will need a huge database with the names of everything
searchable and the corresponding coordinates. Once you have the
coordinates (look up from the database using the search word(s)) it's a
matter of selecting resolution and show the map using (coord - X, coord -
Y)(coord + X, coord + Y).
I could be wrong though.

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