title: Is there a way to access the Bing Maps geocoding API via REST?
body: <p>Is there a way to access the Bing Maps API via REST to obtain geocoding information from an address?  This is something that's trivial to do with Google and Yahoo; what I'm looking for is functionality like this, from Yahoo:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html" rel="noreferrer">http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html</a></p>
  
  <p>(Specifically, see the sample request URL on that page, but also imagine that URL with a simple "location" parameter rather than separate street, city, state, and zip parameters.)</p>
  
  <p>I've found examples of using other parts of the Bing API via REST, but nothing that accesses the Maps API, or specifically, the geocoding functionality.</p>