Hi, I'm having some doubts about how the hard limits work when using the occurrence search API. I think this is a documentation/error message issue rather than a technical one:
Here is what the doc says: - max value for "limit" = 300 - max total records = 1.000.000 (does that means limit * offset?) What my tests says: - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=3335 => works, but shouldn't since 300*3335 = 1000500 total records - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&offset=200000 => "maximum offset allowed is 200000", but offset IS 200000 (message should be "less than"? 199999 works) Also, this limit on the offset parameter should be stated in the doc page. - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offset=199998 => "maximum offset allowed is 200000": here, we probably hit the 1.000.000 total limit, but the error message refer to the undocumented (and not hit here) max offset limit. Could you clarify a bit ? All the best, Nico -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150212/ca153b98/attachment.html>
