Tim, Thanks very much! Makes sense.
Scott On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:21 AM Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > 2 things can cause this: > > 1. Eventual consistency > The count service is an insanely high throughput service, while search is > lower throughput - they have different backends, and a messaging bus keeps > them in sync. Because of this there is often a short period (up to 1 hr > but normally < 5 mins) where they can differ during indexing runs. Issues > can creep in and they drift and occasionally we rebuild the count service. > The search service is always the correct one. > > 2. Geospatial issues > The isGeoreferenced only counts records with coordinates and no known > geospatial issues - i.e. records we?d consider suitable for using the > coordinates. > > In this case it is 2. that provides the difference, and the search service > should be using the &hasGeospatialIssue parameter. > > > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=7264332&hasCoordinate=true&hasGeospatialIssue=false&limit=20 > > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?taxonKey=7264332&isGeoreferenced=true > > Both report 4515 records. > > I hope this helps - please feel free to quote me verbatim on the issue. > > Cheers, > Tim > > On 09 Apr 2015, at 07:40, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > A user of the R client we make for GBIF reports different number of > occurrences for the /occurrence/search endpoint and the /occurrence/count > endpoint with the same taxonkey, and limiting to georeferenced data only. > See > https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/rgbif-occ-count-and-occ-search-results-differ/174 > for the discussion. > > I imagine there's a good explanation for this, but I'm not sure what it is > right now. > > Thanks! Scott > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20150409/959140ac/attachment.html>
