Windows phone location tracking program - windows-phone-8

I want to make a windows phone app that gets the users location and then checks wether their location is within a certain area (a mapped out polygon or inside a square of coordinates) and then deliver information based on if they are within that area or not. This is referred to as geofencing. Is their an API out their on an example of this that makes this very easy? All I want to do is map out a location and see if the users coordinates are within that.
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Please use MovementThreshold property in GeoCoordinateWatcher. here please mention the distance in meter. So if the corresponding distance crossed you will get notification in Position_Changed Callback.
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IF you're going to show the current location in a map, then you could simply go for the guidance provided by msdn here.
Or else if you just wanted to use the `Geo Coordinates, have a look at this.
For you to continue with the GeoFencing, this would be helpful Setting up a geofence
Hope it helps!

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Quick question.
If you click on the following link: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.838061,-1.604025
It will take you to Google Maps and you can see a single pin on the map. This is done by sending two parameters via the URL which, in this case are: 53.838061,-1.604025. These are the Latitude and Longitude coordinates of one location.
What I wish to have is basically two sets of coordinates so I can see two pins on the map.
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Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
I think you will have to use this api: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#Markers
There are also some examples there. I hope this helps.
Am taking that you need to know the co-ordinates from the maps page and not via the api.
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