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coordinateAccurracy field
by Scott Chamberlain 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hi all, Did the coordinateAccurracy used to exist and was removed at some point? I can see mention of it e.g., here http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-1804?jql=text%20~%20%22coordinateAccu… - but perhaps it has been removed? I can see that the elevationAccuracy field is returned with many records, but haven't seen coordinateAccurracy in any records. Thanks! Scott

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mediaType parameter not working anymore
by Scott Chamberlain 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Is anyone else having this problem, e.g., http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?mediaType=StillImage returns { - offset: 0, - limit: 20, - endOfRecords: true, - count: 0, - results: [ ] } Thanks, Scott

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All /species routes down
by Scott Chamberlain 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

All seem to be down right now...Guessing there's some kind of scheduled maintenance. Thanks, Scott

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Any limit on download request data?
by Priyank Tiwari 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi, I am trying to enqueue the following request using download api, http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?YEAR=1995%2C*&HAS_GEOSPATIAL_ISSUE=fa… Somehow, it is getting Killed after a while. Is there any limit on number of rows that a download request can accept? Any download request limit that I should be aware of? Thanks, Priyank

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one map for more than one dataset
by Dröge, Gabriele 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hi, I would like to know how to query the API for getting the map for more than one dataset. type=DATASET&key=datasetkey1&key=datasetkey2 didn't work. The map only show dots for first datasetkey. I need one map for ~ 20 datasets. Best, Gabi

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Download Request API issues
by Priyank Tiwari 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi, I was able to successfully post a download request to gbif which was successful, but the size was 0B. Below are the details of download, IDENTIFIERdoi:10.15468/dl.gnpik4 <http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.gnpik4>CITE ASGBIF.org (28th May 2015) GBIF Occurrence Download http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.gnpik4 QUERYGeoreferencedtrueSpatial issuesfalseYear>= 1995Month>= JanuaryCountry IndiaTaxonLepidopteraSIZE0 BSTATUSSucceeded You can see that the status is Succeeded, but the the SIZE is 0B. Also, I didn't receive any email notification regarding download completion. Am I missing anything? Thanks, Priyank

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Re: [API-users] Getting server error 500 while trying to post a download request
by Tim Robertson 26 May '15

26 May '15

Hi Priyank The TAXON_KEY currently only supports the equals predicate. We will look to support an array of values in the future. Please let me know if that solves your problem. Thanks, Tim >> From: Priyank Tiwari <priyankgt(a)gmail.com> >> Subject: [API-users] Getting server error 500 while trying to post a download request >> Date: 26 May 2015 08:16:09 GMT+2 >> To: api-users(a)lists.gbif.org >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to post a download request which is as follows, >> >> curl -i -u username:password -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d '{"creator":"username","notification_address": ["username(a)domain.com"],"predicate":{"type":"and","predicates":[{"type":"equals","key":"HAS_COORDINATE","value":"true"},{"type":"equals","key":"HAS_GEOSPATIAL_ISSUE","value":"false"},{"type":"greaterThanOrEquals","key":"YEAR","value":1995},{"type":"greaterThanOrEquals","key":"MONTH","value":1},{"type":"equals","key":"COUNTRY","value":"IN"},{"type":"in","key":"TAXON_KEY","values":[797]}]}}' http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request >> >> But the server is throwing a 500 error. The relevant part among the entire printed error trace I think is >> >> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Search parameter TAXON_KEY is not mapped to Hive >> >> at org.gbif.occurrence.download.service.HiveQueryVisitor.toHiveField(HiveQueryVisitor.java:147) >> >> at org.gbif.occurrence.download.service.HiveQueryVisitor.visit(HiveQueryVisitor.java:209) >> >> ... 58 more >> >> It says that search parameter TAXON_KEY is not mapped, but I see TAXON_KEY being used in the examples at http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#predicates. >> >> Is it a documentation issue or 'in' predicate does not support 'TAXON_KEY'? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Priyank >> _______________________________________________ >> API-users mailing list >> API-users(a)lists.gbif.org >> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >

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Getting server error 500 while trying to post a download request
by Priyank Tiwari 26 May '15

26 May '15

Hi, I am trying to post a download request which is as follows, curl -i -u username:password -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d '{"creator":"username","notification_address": ["username(a)domain.com"],"predicate":{"type":"and","predicates":[{"type":"equals","key":"HAS_COORDINATE","value":"true"},{"type":"equals","key":"HAS_GEOSPATIAL_ISSUE","value":"false"},{"type":"greaterThanOrEquals","key":"YEAR","value":1995},{"type":"greaterThanOrEquals","key":"MONTH","value":1},{"type":"equals","key":"COUNTRY","value":"IN"},{"type":"in","key":"TAXON_KEY","values":[797]}]}}' http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request But the server is throwing a 500 error. The relevant part among the entire printed error trace I think is Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Search parameter TAXON_KEY is not mapped to Hive at org.gbif.occurrence.download.service.HiveQueryVisitor.toHiveField(HiveQueryVisitor.java:147) at org.gbif.occurrence.download.service.HiveQueryVisitor.visit(HiveQueryVisitor.java:209) ... 58 more It says that search parameter TAXON_KEY is not mapped, but I see TAXON_KEY being used in the examples at http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#predicates. Is it a documentation issue or 'in' predicate does not support 'TAXON_KEY'? Thanks, Priyank

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downtime today
by Oliver Meyn [GBIF] 21 May '15

21 May '15

Hi all, I’m sorry to report that we need to take the site (and API) down for 30-60 minutes this morning for backend systems upgrade. Downtime will commence at 11:00 Copenhagen time. Thanks for your patience, Oliver -- Oliver Meyn Software Developer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) +45 35 32 15 12 http://www.gbif.org

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Few queries regarding downloaded occurrence.text data
by Priyank Tiwari 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi All, I am currently trying to display the GBIF data in a format which is currently not supported by the GBIF API. For exmaple, displaying the list of species within few KM radius from a specific location ordered by species occurrence count. To accomplish this, I decided to use the occurrence download API to fetch the data for all the required regions, store it in a database and query as per my requirement. I decided to go with following 2 simple tables in the database, 1. *Species* - stores species related data like scientific name, vernacular names, representative image url, etc 2. *Occurences* - stores occurence related data like eventDate, gbifid, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, etc After having a quick look at the downloaded occurrences.txt file, following queries came to my mind, 1. What should be my primary key for species table? I see 'speciesKey' column as a candidate, but it is set as null for some species. The occurrence record has a scientific name but no speciesKey. Any suggestions on this? What field I can use as unique identifier for species? 2. Vernacular names are missing for almost all the occurrences. Is there any API by which I can also obtain vernacular names for a species? http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/vernacularNames seems to do the job, but what is {int} (speciesKey?) and how do I get it from occurrence data? 3. I also need few representative images of the species. http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/media seems to do the job, but it returns a large image and I am looking for a small thumbnail image. Any way to accomplish this? Also, any API that can provide me both the vernacular names and imge url in single API call? Thanks, Priyank

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