[Freegis-list] Newbie Question

[Scott Davis]

> --- 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
scott at davisworld.org