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 > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150319/ead3e43f/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150319/ead3e43f/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150319/ead3e43f/attachment-0002.html>
