[API-users] Multiple taxonKey values with maps API ?

[Scott Chamberlain]

Okay, sounds good, I will not use them.

Best, Scott

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 3:57 AM Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:

> I’d advise against using the “adhoc” maps.  They are incredibly slow and
> anything beyond small load really causes issue. A loop within an R script
> will likely kill the server.
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> We are exploring alternatives (elasticsearch based) but it will be a while
> before ready.
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> Thanks
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> *From: *API-users <api-users-bounces at lists.gbif.org> on behalf of Scott
> Chamberlain <scott at ropensci.org>
> *Date: *Saturday, 11 August 2018 at 11.08
> *To: *Matthew Blissett <mblissett at gbif.org>
> *Cc: *"api-users at lists.gbif.org" <api-users at lists.gbif.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [API-users] Multiple taxonKey values with maps API ?
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> Thanks Tim/Matt,
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>
> Right, the BOTH example is what I'm looking for. Great, didn't realize
> that adhoc would work!  The use case is this WIP project
> https://github.com/ropensci/phylodiv where the idea is to let users
> quickly visualize biodiversity of taxa of a phylogeny (e.g., comparing
> clade A vs. B, species A vs. B, genus X vs. genus Y, etc.), and there's a
> lot more possible user questions I can handle if I can include multiple
> taxa in a map API query.  So I think adhoc may be fast enough to give users
> that quick response they'd need for exploring many questions quickly (much
> faster than downloading full occurrence data, and just a bit slower than
> density maps).
>
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>
> Best, Scott
>
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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 9:30 AM Matthew Blissett <mblissett at gbif.org>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> A tile for the western hemisphere showing:
>
> House sparrows:
> http://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/density/0/0/0@1x.png?srs=EPSG:4326&bin=hex&taxonKey=5231190&style=purpleYellow-noborder.poly
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> Mackrel:
> http://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/density/0/0/0@1x.png?srs=EPSG:4326&bin=hex&taxonKey=8596&style=purpleYellow-noborder.poly
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> Both:
> http://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/density/0/0/0@1x.png?srs=EPSG:4326&bin=hex&taxonKey=5231190&taxonKey=8596&style=purpleYellow-noborder.poly
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> I think the both example is what Scott's asking for, and it isn't
> supported
> <https://github.com/gbif/maps/blob/master/vectortile-server/src/main/java/org/gbif/maps/resource/Params.java#L69>
> .
>
> It *is* supported with an ad-hoc search, but these are usually much
> slower:
> http://api.gbif.org/v2/map/occurrence/adhoc/0/0/0@1x.png?srs=EPSG:4326&bin=hex&taxonKey=5231190&taxonKey=8596&style=purpleYellow-noborder.poly
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> I've made an issue for it: https://github.com/gbif/maps/issues/27 since
> it's not the first time this has been requested. The previous request was
> for different colours to be applied to each taxon, which is more
> complicated and different to just adding several taxa's occurrences
> together.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On 10/08/18 17:31, Tim Robertson wrote:
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> I’m not sure if this went unanswered but the API has supported that since
> the beginning Scott.
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> Or have I misunderstood something?
>
> In haste,
>
> Tim
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> *Subject:* [API-users] Multiple taxonKey values with maps API ?
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>
> Hello!
>
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> Are there any plans to allow passing any of the primary parameters
> (taxonKey, datasetKey, country, publishingOrg, publishingCountry) more than
> once. e.g.
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> ...?taxonKey=1&taxonKey=2
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> or comma separated. Perhaps up to some max number?
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> Or is there a good reason not to suppor that? Woud it lead to jobs that
> run too long on your servers?
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> Thanks! Scott
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