Re: an interesting message on Gnotices

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-hackers yakk net au>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:11:16PM +0200, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> Panix writes: 
> "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."
> 
> Is this true? I once saw a screenshot of a GNOME Time Zone Selector (I
> believe it is part of XST) sporting a map of the Earth for selecting your
> location.
> Someone should modify it to zoom in on your exact location, with
> couple-of-meters resolution :)

One of the example Reef components that Adam Elman wrote allowed you browse
TerraServer over SOAP through Nautilus - so its a solved problem ;-)

Ian