[API-users] A question about the Maps API

[Tim Robertson]

Dear Mauro,

Thank you for contacting us. 
Today you need to do 2 web service calls for this behaviour - one to lookup the species ID and a second to create the map.

Attached is a simple example showing this.

I hope this helps,
Tim




On 19 Mar 2015, at 03:09, Mauro Cavalcanti <maurobio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear ALL,
> 
> Before the implementation of the new GBIF Portal, it was possible to generate distribution maps for a given species using an API call as follows:
> 
> http://data.gbif.org/species/taxonName/ajax/returnType/concept/view/ajaxMapUrls/provider/1/?query=
> 
> where the value of the "query parameter" was a species name.
> 
> This API call has been used by Roderick Page in his "iSpecies" web biodiversity data aggregator, as well as in my own "eSpecies" (sort of a clone of Page's iSpecies, written in Python, see sourceforge.net/projects/especies).
> 
> Unfortunately, with the new GBIF Portal is seems that all API calls have changed and I got lost attempting to find out how to reproduce the previous behaviour using the new API. I presume it is still possible to generate distribution maps with the new API, but could not find out how. Can anyone offer some hints?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
> 
> With warmest regards,
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti
> E-mail: maurobio at gmail.com
> Web: http://sites.google.com/site/maurobio
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