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- (void)globeViewController:(WhirlyGlobeViewController *)viewC didTapAt:(WGCoordinate)coord
{
    // We need degrees for the query, even if we work in radians internally
    float lat = coord.y * 180.0 / M_PI;
    float lon = coord.x * 180.0 / M_PI;

    // We want the geometry and a couple of attributes for just one feature under the point
    NSString *account = @"mousebird";
    NSString *admin0Table = @"table_10m_admin_0_map_subunits";
    NSString *queryStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:
            @"http://%@.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?format=GeoJSON&q=\
                          SELECT sovereignt,adm0_a3,the_geom FROM %@ \
                          WHERE ST_Intersects(the_geom,ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(%f,%f),4326)) \
                          LIMIT 1",account,admin0Table,lon,lat];

    // Kick off the request with AFNetworking.  We can deal with the result in a block
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:
                             [NSURL URLWithString:[queryStr stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]];
    AFJSONRequestOperation *operation =
    [AFJSONRequestOperation JSONRequestOperationWithRequest:request
            success:
     // We'll do this if we succeed
     ^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, id JSON)
     {
         // Convert to GeoJSON and add the country outline
         [self addCountry:[MaplyVectorObject VectorObjectFromGeoJSONDictionary:(NSDictionary *) JSON]];
     }
            failure:
     // And nothing if we fail
     ^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response,NSError *error, id JSON)
     {
     }
     ];
    
    // Kick off the network request
    [operation start];
}