January 2019 - API-users - lists.gbif.org

Getting number of records for a given scientific name
by Mauro Cavalcanti 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Dear ALL, Is there a way to retrieve the number of georeferenced records for a given scientific name using a GBIF API call? I tried something like " http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?ScientificName=Vicia+faba" but it of course didn't work. I realize this is a rather silly question, but most of the time I only access the GBIF API using Python (via pygibf) or R (via rgbif), and therefore I'm not used to direct calls to the API (what a shame!). Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide? Best regards, -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti E-mail: maurobio(a)gmail.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/maurobio "Life is complex. It consists of real and imaginary parts."

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Occurrence Inventories
by Adriaan van Os 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Occurrence Inventories <https://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence> support only a few properties: basisOfRecord, year, datasets, countries and publishingCountry. I suggest to add /occurrence/counts/monthOfYear /occurrence/counts/dayOfYear These would be useful for creating fligh-period charts. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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Strange line on the base-map
by Adriaan van Os 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

At zoom level 7, I get a strange line on the base-map here: <https://tile.gbif.org/3575/omt/7/61/92@4x.png?style=gbif-middle> This happens with three browsers I tried and also with curl. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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Clipping occurrence data to a country
by Adriaan van Os 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

I noticed that e.g. "&country=NL" limits occurrence data even within the specified country. That is, for that country, I get less occurrence data than without the "&country=NL" Is this caused by wrong data, by data with the wrong (or no) country identifier attached ? Anyway, I now seek another solution, which is to clip the occurrence data to the specified country on the map. However, how do I get map data tiles with country borders ? I use EPSG:3575. Regards, Adriaan van Os

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