  Unlike other stars, the surface of the Sun can be spatially resolved to a
high degree of detail. But the Sun can also be observed as if it was a distant
star. The availability of solar disk-resolved and disk-integrated spectra
offers an opportunity to devise methods to derive information about the spatial
distribution of solar features from Sun-as-a-star measurements. Here, we
present an update on work done at the National Solar Observatory to reconcile
disk-integrated and disk-resolved solar spectra from the Synoptic Optical
Long-term Investigation of the Sun (SOLIS) station. The results of this work
will lead to a new approach to infer the information about the spatial
distribution of features on other stars, from the overall filling factor of
active regions to, possibly, the latitude/longitude distribution of features.
