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  • Waterluvian1 hour ago
    GIS APIs using SOAP are often going to be ArcGIS Server based APIs. If I recall correctly, you can literally just check a box to expose a REST API as well. SOAP was also just a checkbox.
  • khalic1 hour ago
    I still get nightmares from SOAP…
    • MarkSweep28 minutes ago
      Wake from that nightmare and wrap your angle brackets with MCP so you can start hallucinating:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AustinWise&#x2F;mcp2ws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AustinWise&#x2F;mcp2ws</a><p>(This program is for comedy purposes only)
  • guillermofc4 hours ago
    Spain&#x27;s cadastre (the official property registry for land&#x2F;buildings data) has a free public API. The catch: it&#x27;s SOAP&#x2F;.asmx-era XML with three different services depending on your input (reference, coordinates, or address), four different response shapes discriminated by a counters block, business errors returned as HTTP 200 with the error inside the XML, infra errors as HTTP 500 text&#x2F;plain, decimal commas (&quot;100,000000&quot;), and no documented rate limits or SLA.<p>I wrote up everything I hit while integrating it (applies even if you never use my product): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediohq.com&#x2F;guias&#x2F;consumir-api-catastro-soap-json&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediohq.com&#x2F;guias&#x2F;consumir-api-catastro-soap-json&#x2F;</a><p>Predio is the wrapper I built on top: one JSON contract for the three inputs, typed stable errors (404&#x2F;422&#x2F;402 always JSON), cache with serve-stale so the upstream&#x27;s availability isn&#x27;t yours, and an MCP server (Streamable HTTP) so agents can call it directly. Prepaid per-call pricing, 250 calls&#x2F;month free, no subscription.<p>Honest caveats: Spain only (and not the Basque Country&#x2F;Navarre, which run their own foral cadastres); no ownership data (that&#x27;s legally protected); if you need one lookup a month, just use the official site — I wrote a comparison that includes &quot;when not to use us&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediohq.com&#x2F;guias&#x2F;api-catastro-comparativa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prediohq.com&#x2F;guias&#x2F;api-catastro-comparativa&#x2F;</a><p>Happy to answer anything about wrangling government SOAP into something agents can use.
    • loloquwowndueo43 minutes ago
      Wow even the HN intro comment is slop.<p>Also - I’m a native Spanish speaker, it’s probably the first slop page in Spanish I’ve ever seen and it’s … painful. Do your users a favor and please go through it and do some human-driven copy editing. As is this is barely intelligible.
      • mejutoco26 minutes ago
        I had to check<p>&gt; Esta guía es para cuando quieres meterla en producción<p>This sounds pretty inappropriate, and a bit funny.
      • nickphx27 minutes ago
        those honest caveats though.. lol