Cus Productions

The Petri IT Knowledgebase has a useful list of tools available on the Windows 2000 Resource Kit CD. Handy to have if you don’t have the CD handy and just want one of the files on it.

So I was going through the CoPilot Live 7 config files to see if there were any interesting tweaks I could do.

Along the way I found the following setting:

[Settings]
“SoapEndpointUrl”=”http://copilotws.qa.alk.com/”
“ReleaseSoapEndpointUrl_DoNotTouch”=”http://copilotws.alk.com/”
“SearchRadius”=250
“ResultsPerPage”=10

Hmmm… Looks interesting, and represents a web service provided by ALK/CoPilot.

Visual Studio 2005 can easily incorporate it into a Web Reference and I was able to start querying the web service – there’s no checking as to the browser ID so anyone can use it…. And I did.

The LocalSearch web service takes the following parameters:

• searchQuery
• latitude
• longitude
• radius
• offset
• numResults

searchQuery is a string that takes a category. The Categories listed in CoPilot itself provide a good index, including “Galleries”, “Banks”, “Hospitals” and much much more.

latitude/longitude are as decimal degrees.

radius is in metres

offset represents the offset in the finished results list. This allows you to do a ’search’ followed by ‘more results’.

numResults is the number of results you want to retrieve.

Enjoy!!

Everything went well and the sun shone for us. Fantastic day!

It was a small wedding with about 20 folks – many thanks to everyone who could make it, and those who couldn’t who sent their best wishes. Ma had her representatives there (many thanks to Lorna and family) and Pa was there in spirit, with me wearing his watch and Conway tie pin.