{"id":11434,"date":"2014-07-15T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:49:56","slug":"working-geolocation-find-directions-locate-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/working-geolocation-find-directions-locate-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with GeoLocation to Find Directions and Locate your Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Guys! Today we will be dealing with GeoLocation. We would be <strong>Finding Directions<\/strong> between start and the end point given by the user, and secondly we will be <strong>Locating our own destination<\/strong>. Moreover in this tutorial we will be continuing with the same application, which was Application Bar and MenuItems because we added two options there Find Direction and Locate Me.<\/p>\n<h2>Lets start with Geolocation:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the last app that we make, which was based on Application Bar and Menu Items<\/li>\n<li>We would be needing that in order to continue our work<\/li>\n<li>Well if you have open the previous project then go to the <strong>MainPage.xaml.cs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Here look for the definitions you have created against Find Direction, Locate Me and Call me.<\/li>\n<li>Paste the following code in call me definition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"361\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me.png 361w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me-360x143.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"361\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me.png 361w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/call-me-360x143.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paste the following code in find direction definition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"774\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction.png 774w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-750x223.png 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-700x208.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"774\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction.png 774w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-750x223.png 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/find-Direction-700x208.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paste the following \u00a0code in Locate Me definition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"520\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me.png 520w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me-100x65.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me.png\" alt=\"GeoLocation\" width=\"520\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me.png 520w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/locate-me-100x65.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here you go you can now get you location and find the direction between two places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onedrive.live.com\/redir?resid=87D3A330BFFE7FEB!29325&amp;authkey=!ANp_gkz3mH2z_M8&amp;ithint=file%2c.rar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Download Sample Code From Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Guys! Today we will be dealing with GeoLocation. We would be Finding Directions between start and the end point given by the user, and secondly we will be Locating our own destination. Moreover in this tutorial we will be continuing with the same application, which was Application Bar and MenuItems because we added two options there Find Direction and Locate Me. Lets start with Geolocation: Open the last app that we make, which was based on Application Bar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[922,158],"tags":[915,916,918,919,917],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Working on Geolocation app to Find Directions and Locate Us<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We would be using Geolocation to Find Directions between two destination coordinates, and secondly we will be Locating our own destination.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/working-geolocation-find-directions-locate-position\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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