I could send you some code which uses the vfpconnection from sweet potato, it 
builds a URL to pass the parameters in (in my case just a uk postcode) and then 
uses the JSON project from VFPX to process the response and give you the 
longitude and latitude etc.

Let me know if it sounds close to what is required and I will dig it out this 
evening.

Regards

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier
Sent: 13 September 2016 11:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: Google API for Geocoding ... Again

Fellow Gentlemen,
I posted a request about doing geocoding requests  to receive back a Lat/Long 
dataset for various addresses a few weeks ago and now find that Google do in 
fact provide a Geocoding service:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start

The responses back from the requests are all JSON from a Java Script API run by 
Google. I have looked over Rick's Westwind site to try and get a start on using 
this method to get back a JSON response but seem to be getting nowhere fast. 
Anyone got any ideas on a simple & neat way of retrieving this data back using 
VFP programmatically? Either that or anyone know a free Geocoding site that 
would handle up to 100 name and address calls per day ideally by sending a text 
file and receiving one back which could be automated from the VFP end.

Never even looked at Web services in anger before so it all seems a little 
baffling and terribly long winded at the moment unless I am missing something 
obvious.

Note I don't want to have to drop into an intermediate program/language to 
accomplish this, if possible.

Dave

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