Get country code using Bing Maps REST API

Question

I am a WP7 developer. I have longitude and latitude of a location and getting complete information defined by the coordinate ie longitude and latitude by using Bing maps API

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/37.09024,-95.712891?o=json&key=APIKEY

Above latitude and longitude is USA location, I'm able to get addressLine,adminDistrict,adminDistrict2,countryRegion,formattedAddress and postalCode but not country code(ISO ALPHA-2 Code) like IN for India, US for United States, countryRegion in json response consists country name, My app limitation is to use country code not country name.Did anything i missed in API url. Please help me

Answer 1

You need to add a seperate parameter "incl=ciso2" for country code as it comes under additional info. Modify your query string like this. http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/37.09024,-95.712891?incl=ciso2&o=json&key=APIKEY.

Doing this you will have an additonal field in the address object "countryregioniso2" which will have the 2 digit country code.

Answer 2

The field name if you have added &incl=ciso2 to url will be "countryRegionIso2" and this still works.

Answer 3

I'd recommend you consider using the Geonames countrycode service instead.

Documentation: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#countrycode

Example: http://api.geonames.org/countryCode?lat=37.09024&lng=-95.712891&username=demo