How to get user's location while chatting with bots?

Question

I am developing a Bot Framework application that integrates with Slack using Microsoft Bot technology. In the bot project, I was trying to get the user location when the user sends a message.

What I am trying to achieve is that, when a user types the message "Show me nearby hospitals", I want to get the users Geo coordinates and pass them to an API that will return a list of hospitals near that location. So any idea on how to get the user's current location in the Microsoft Bot project?

I tried using the Geo location class, however I am not able to add the class reference directly and when I add the external DLL for the Geo location class, Visual Studio throws some errors.

Is there any way to get the users current location in Bots?

Answer 1

The Bot Framework is getting updated every minute!!!

The Bing location control for Microsoft Bot Framework makes the process of collecting and validating the user’s desired location in a conversation easy and reliable.

The control is available for C# and Node.js and works consistently across all channels supported by Bot Framework.

Check the documentation here.

Click to view the code sample

Answer 2

This question is old but this is now a thing that exists to help with location hope it will help someone looking for this answer. https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Location