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/GetPlaceFacts"

<?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>
    <GetPlaceFacts xmlns="http://terraserver-usa.com/terraserver/">
      <place>
        <City>string</City>
        <State>string</State>
        <Country>string</Country>
      </place>
    </GetPlaceFacts>
  </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>
    <GetPlaceFactsResponse xmlns="http://terraserver-usa.com/terraserver/">
      <GetPlaceFactsResult>
        <Place>
          <City>string</City>
          <State>string</State>
          <Country>string</Country>
        </Place>
        <Center>
          <Lon>double</Lon>
          <Lat>double</Lat>
        </Center>
        <AvailableThemeMask>Photo or Topo or Relief</AvailableThemeMask>
        <PlaceTypeId>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</PlaceTypeId>
        <Population>int</Population>
      </GetPlaceFactsResult>
    </GetPlaceFactsResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>