Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-17 Thread Mike Doub
I'm on it. :-). There is one in there already, but David's adds a Bering.,, but there's always room for more good routines. David, if you have any others that you would like to share let me know. Mike On Tuesday, March 17, 2015, Richard Gaskin wrote: > David Epstein wrote: > > Graham Samu

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Epstein wrote: Graham Samuel stipulated that he did not want to code a LiveCode algorithm to solve this problem, but in case it might be useful here is a function that I believe does so. function earthKM myLat,myLon,Lat0,Lon0, at aid -- return km distance on earth, load aid [angle in

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-17 Thread David Epstein
>> For those who want to know, my current case involves a succession of points >> on the Earth’s surface where I know each one's longitude and latitude: I >> want to convert the intervals between these points to distances in metres >> (say). Graham Samuel stipulated that he did not want to cod

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-17 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks very much Devin - I’ll be studying this material. Looks like exactly what I was hoping for. Graham > On 16 Mar 2015, at 21:59, Devin Asay wrote: > > Graham, > > Here are some links to notes I use in my class for introducing students to > the concept of web services in general and for

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-16 Thread Devin Asay
Graham, Here are some links to notes I use in my class for introducing students to the concept of web services in general and for how to access them in LiveCode. They’re written assuming no prior knowledge of web services. You may find something of interest. Intro to Web Services Lesson Outlin

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

2015-03-16 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Graham Interfacing with a website as you describe may be very easy. However, if you anticipate making scores or thousands of queries a day, they may block your app (e.g. based on the User-Agent header sent along with your query). Assuming you don't face that problem, then if the website just