[Freegis-list] Newbie Question

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:19:55PM +0100, Nico de Haen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for Help,
 
Nico,

GRASS comes with a prototype SWIG API
 http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass61progman/swig/main.html
which I would like to see extended. This could become
the backbone to such a query which is simply the 'r.what'
command in GRASS. Wrapping 'r.what' in SWIG, a SWIG-PHP
interface could do what you need.

Markus