Re: an interesting message on Gnotices

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> "Here is a practical example. I believe that Microsoft's TerraServer, a
> website hosting tons of satellite images of the earth, has the ability to
> be called via SOAP to retrieve images of any single point on the planet.
> It would be fairly easy using SOAP to write a minimal graphical
> application in GTK using C and this SOUP library that would allow the user
> to type in a set of coordinates, press submit, and get back a nice high
> resolution image."

We should make an embeddable Bonobo component that does that, so every
one can just embed a map displayer.