find my location maui in csharp

To find your location in Maui, Hawaii using C#, you can use the Bing Maps REST API along with an IP geolocation service to retrieve the latitude and longitude coordinates of your current location. Here's an example code snippet that demonstrates how to accomplish this:

main.cs
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

public class Location
{
    [JsonProperty("latitude")]
    public decimal Latitude { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("longitude")]
    public decimal Longitude { get; set; }
}

public static class MauiLocationFinder
{
    private const string BingMapsApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE";
    private const string IpifyBaseUrl = "https://api.ipify.org";
    private const string BingMapsBaseUrl = "https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations";

    public static async Task<Location> FindMyLocationAsync()
    {
        // Get the IP address of the current machine
        using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
        {
            var response = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(IpifyBaseUrl);
            var ipAddress = response.Trim();
            
            // Use the IP geolocation service to get the approximate location of the IP address
            var locationUrl = $"{BingMapsBaseUrl}/{ipAddress}?key={BingMapsApiKey}";
            response = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(locationUrl);
            var locationResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(response);
            var coordinates = locationResult?.resourceSets?.[0]?.resources?.[0]?.geocodePoints?.[0]?.coordinates;

            if (coordinates == null)
            {
                throw new Exception("Unable to find location information");
            }

            return new Location
            {
                Latitude = coordinates[0],
                Longitude = coordinates[1]
            };
        }
    }
}
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To use this code, replace "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" with your Bing Maps API key, and then call the FindMyLocationAsync method like so:

main.cs
var location = await MauiLocationFinder.FindMyLocationAsync();
Console.WriteLine($"Your current location: {location.Latitude}, {location.Longitude}");
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This should output the latitude and longitude coordinates of your current location in Maui. Keep in mind that IP geolocation services are not completely accurate, so the location may not be exact.

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