Hi,
I'm having some doubts about how the hard limits work when using the occurrence search API. I think this is a documentation/error message issue rather than a technical one:
Here is what the doc says:
- max value for "limit" = 300 - max total records = 1.000.000 (does that means limit * offset?)
What my tests says:
- http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&am... => works, but shouldn't since 300*3335 = 1000500 total records
- http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&... => "maximum offset allowed is 200000", but offset IS 200000 (message should be "less than"? 199999 works) Also, this limit on the offset parameter should be stated in the doc page.
- http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&am... => "maximum offset allowed is 200000": here, we probably hit the 1.000.000 total limit, but the error message refer to the undocumented (and not hit here) max offset limit.
Could you clarify a bit ?
All the best,
Nico