Re: Newbie Question
Scott Davis <[email protected]>
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> --- Original Nachricht --- > Absender: Mateusz Łoskot > Datum: 16.02.2006 18:57 >> Nico de Haen <mail <at> ndh-websolutions.de> writes: >>> >>> I wonder if it is possible to get the altitude of a certain >>> geographic >>> point (for which I have the Latitude and Longitude) via a web >>> service >>> or another API from some Server in the internet. >>> >>> I'm programming in PHP and would appreciate if someone could provide >>> an example. >>> >> >> I only know this Geoid Calculator: >> >> http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm96/intpt.htm >> >> It should be easy to fill this form from PHP ;-) >> >> Cheers >> > What a nice utility. Is there a web services interface (REST, SOAP, etc.)? Many of the other services I use regularly (http:// geocoder.us, http://brainoff.com/worldkit/geocoder/) offer nice RESTful interfaces in addition to the nice HTML interfaces. Even flipping the form method from POST to GET would be a start -- but screen scraping the results from HTML is so... so... 1990s. (grin) I've done a number of presentations on the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour about URL-harvesting popular mapping websites and utilizing geo-web services. Here are the slides: http://www.davisworld.org/ presentations/realWorldWebMapping.zip Strong work, Scott Davis [email protected] _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list [email protected] https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list