>Hello again, folks.
>
>I was wondering if anyone out there in Universal Thread land would
>know of a socket-based server that allows for querying distances
>between two cities. That is, I make a call to a procedure, it
>creates a socket, I ask for the distance between Houston, TX.
>and Lafayette, LA., and the query returns "mileage: 222 miles"
>or something there about. Should anyone know of such a beast,
>please pipe in. :^)
>
>Randall

Not sure if this is at all what you're looking for, but I recall seeing a VFP gizmo that used MapPoint to calcualte distances. It might be in the downloads section here, but I dont know how it worked...