SOAP

The following is a sample SOAP request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /TerraService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: terraserver.microsoft.net
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://terraserver-usa.com/terraserver/CountPlacesInRect"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <CountPlacesInRect xmlns="http://terraserver-usa.com/terraserver/">
      <upperleft>
        <Lon>double</Lon>
        <Lat>double</Lat>
      </upperleft>
      <lowerright>
        <Lon>double</Lon>
        <Lat>double</Lat>
      </lowerright>
      <ptype>UnknownPlaceType or AirRailStation or BayGulf or CapePeninsula or CityTown or HillMountain or Island or Lake or OtherLandFeature or OtherWaterFeature or ParkBeach or PointOfInterest or River</ptype>
    </CountPlacesInRect>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <CountPlacesInRectResponse xmlns="http://terraserver-usa.com/terraserver/">
      <CountPlacesInRectResult>int</CountPlacesInRectResult>
    </CountPlacesInRectResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>