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

[Scott Chamberlain]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for this. I'll try combining multiple layers in a map.

Best, Scott

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:04 AM Matthew Blissett <mblissett at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I tried simply concatenating vector tiles, this is supported by the
> protocol but only works if the layers have different names.  The layer for
> these tiles is always "occurrence", so it doesn't quite work.
>
> https://labs.gbif.org/~mblissett/2018/08/concatenate-vector-tiles/ has a
> hack to make this work, but it's probably just as easy to add multiple
> layers to a map.
>
> Matt
>
> On 11/08/18 16:25, Scott Chamberlain wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are exploring alternatives (elasticsearch based) but it will be a
>> while before ready.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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 ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Tim/Matt,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> Best, Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 9:30 AM Matthew Blissett <mblissett at gbif.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> I’m not sure if this went unanswered but the API has supported that since
>> the beginning Scott.
>>
>>
>>
>> Or have I misunderstood something?
>>
>> In haste,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* API-users <api-users-bounces at lists.gbif.org>
>> <api-users-bounces at lists.gbif.org> on behalf of Scott Chamberlain
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>> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2018 4:02:35 AM
>> *To:* api-users at lists.gbif.org
>> *Subject:* [API-users] Multiple taxonKey values with maps API ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there any plans to allow passing any of the primary parameters
>> (taxonKey, datasetKey, country, publishingOrg, publishingCountry) more than
>> once. e.g.
>>
>>
>>
>> ...?taxonKey=1&taxonKey=2
>>
>>
>>
>> or comma separated. Perhaps up to some max number?
>>
>>
>>
>> Or is there a good reason not to suppor that? Woud it lead to jobs that
>> run too long on your servers?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks! Scott
>>
>>
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