I'm curious why the occurrence/download/ endpoint has a different interface than the other occurrence endpoints (occurrence/search).  I ask because I work on the R client rgbif, and it would be nice to provide the same exact interface to users whether they are getting JSON data or spinning up a download.  However, the query interfaces are quite different.  This isn't a big deal, as I can make both occurrence/download and occurrence/search endpoints  as similar as possible for users despite them being different internally. 

Thanks! 

Scott Chamberlain