Google HTTP Geocoding

I have been doing a lot of searching in regards to Google Maps and information on there API. In my Addressbook I had a some what dynamic but clumsy way of showing some ones location.

So when I would pull the information I would use a PHP function called “urlencode” it basically converts spaces to underscores so your URL won’t explode and make Google angry.

This works fine but I was opening a new window that I had no control over. so that’s when I began to look into the API and after a bit of looking I found that they had support for HTTP Request and by doing so Google spits out a bit of XML.
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