[Biogeosdi] Re: Search on the GBIF REST services

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Great stuff that we can now exclude dodgy / non existant occurrences -
we could probably make th e second (coordinate issues) option user
settable (or at the least a setting in our global config file).

Regards

Tim

2007/6/26, Javier de la Torre <jatorre at gmail.com>:
> Great,
>
> I will then uncomment the code :)
>
> Javier.
>
> On 26/06/2007, at 17:24, Donald Hobern wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Javier - found the problem - will get the fix deployed
> > tomorrow.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Donald
> >
> > Javier de la Torre wrote:
> >> Great Donald,
> >>
> >> We have now some comments to remove on the report about the GBIF
> >> REST service ;)
> >>
> >> Still I have an issue when using the &coordinateissues=false
> >> parameter
> >>
> >> This URL returns 195 records:
> >> http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
> >> format=brief&scientificname=Puma+concolor
> >>
> >> This one none:
> >> http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
> >> format=brief&coordinateissues=false&scientificname=Puma+concolor
> >>
> >>
> >> And I suppose not all coordinates are wrong no?
> >>
> >> Cheers.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26/06/2007, at 14:29, Donald Hobern wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Javier,
> >>>
> >>> The structures are now stable.  Sorry not to have copied you on
> >>> my emails on what was changing.  Adding "&coordinatestatus=true"
> >>> should limit responses to those with coordinates.  You can also
> >>> use "&coordinateissues=false" to exclude records where we have
> >>> detected that the coordinates do not match the supplied country
> >>> name.
> >>>
> >>> Donald
> >>>
> >>> Javier de la Torre wrote:
> >>>> Hey Donald,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am fixing some stuff on the prototype we did in Brasil and I
> >>>> had to change my code to reflect the new format that the rest
> >>>> services are sending now. Is this more or less stable now?
> >>>>
> >>>> And another question, would be possible to ask the service to
> >>>> return only occurrences with coordinates. For us is not of much
> >>>> use occurrences without coordinates.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thats the query I am trying
> >>>>
> >>>> http://newportal.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
> >>>> format=brief&minLatitude=-90&maxLatitude=90&scientificname=Puma
> >>>> +concolor
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Javier.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Donald Hobern (dhobern at gbif.org)
> >>> Deputy Director for Informatics Global Biodiversity Information
> >>> Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen,
> >>> Denmark
> >>> Tel: +45-35321483   Mobile: +45-28751483   Fax: +45-35321480
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Donald Hobern (dhobern at gbif.org)
> > Deputy Director for Informatics Global Biodiversity Information
> > Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen,
> > Denmark
> > Tel: +45-35321483   Mobile: +45-28751483   Fax: +45-35321480
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
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