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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dear Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">In case you have not received a reply yet – If you are submitting requests through the GBIF API there is a limit to the size of the string that can be submitted. It would seem that a 1000 coordinate
pairs would break the limit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">I would recommend downloading data for the general area you are interested in and filter using a GIS application. I have done something similar using a complex polygon in R and I can help you
in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Jan K. Legind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Data manager, GBIF<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Reetz, Michael (NLPV)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 May 2018 09:43<br>
<b>To:</b> api-users@lists.gbif.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [API-users] Number of coordinates in "within" predicate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm working on a procedure for data download for the “Lower Saxon Wadden Sea” national park using the API. It works for a smaller region
defined by a polygon with 183 coordinate pairs (vertices). For a larger region (more than 1000 coordinate pairs), I receive status 400 and the following response text:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Instantiation of [simple type, class org.gbif.api.model.occurrence.predicate.WithinPredicate] value failed: null (through reference chain:
org.gbif.api.model.occurrence.predicate.WithinPredicate["geometry"])<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">My question is where the limit for the number of coordinate pairs is.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks for help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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