LINQ and Geocoding
Mapping applications are everywhere, and having “locational awareness” is paramount when running customer-related applications. Gathering stats about a user’s IP can tell you a lot about their physical location, which in turn can tell you a lot about the market you’re serving.
The core of geocoding is setting an address or location to a point on the globe using Latitude and Longitude. This is pretty easily done using some free services out there like geocoder.us and Google (you need a free Google Maps API key to use this API). Between the two, geocoder.us is much more accurate in terms of finding addresses, but Google is about 100 times faster if you have a lot of data.
Geocoder.us is really easy to use:
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