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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!!