Awesome! Will those be included in the non-verbatim downloads too?
> Op 4 apr. 2016 om 18:32 heeft John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> het > volgende geschreven: > > Excellent! > >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Christian Gendreau <cgendreau at gbif.org> >> wrote: >> Dear API users, >> >> Based on the recommendations from the GBIF Data Fitness for Use in >> Distribution Modelling group and user feedback, the GBIF Informatics team >> decided to apply some changes to the GBIF API for the occurrences[1] >> response. We decided to deprecate the field "coordinateAccuracy" in favor of >> the DarwinCore terms based fields "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters"[2] and >> "coordinatePrecision"[3] as provided(see details below) by the data >> publishers. >> >> The JSON response will remain the same structure except: >> - coordinateAccuracy will never be found since it will be null and null >> values are not provided explicitly (same as the current behaviour for most >> records) >> - coordinateUncertaintyInMeters and coordinatePrecision will be included >> (example: coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 1000, coordinatePrecision: 0.0001) >> >> These changes should not break existing applications using the JSON API, and >> therefore as a non breaking change can be included in the V1 of our API as >> an enhancement. >> >> Details: >> -coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: >> DarwinCore definition: "The horizontal distance (in meters) from the given >> decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude describing the smallest circle >> containing the whole of the Location. Leave the value empty if the >> uncertainty is unknown, cannot be estimated, or is not applicable (because >> there are no coordinates). Zero is not a valid value for this term." >> GBIF comment: double, must be greater and not equals to 0 and lower than >> 5000000 (5000 km), as provided by data publishers with unit stripped (if the >> value is provided in imperial, conversion will be applied), related issue >> OccurrenceIssue.COORDINATE_UNCERTAINTY_METERS_INVALID. >> >> -coordinatePrecision: >> DarwinCore definition: "A decimal representation of the precision of the >> coordinates given in the decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude." >> GBIF comment: double, must be between 0 and 1, elated occurrence issue >> OccurrenceIssue.COORDINATE_PRECISION_INVALID >> >> We expect the changes to be available next week (between 11-15 April 2016). >> >> The GBIF Informatics team >> >> ---- >> [1] http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence >> [2] http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/coordinateUncertaintyInMeters >> [3] http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/coordinatePrecision >> >> GBIF Issue tracking reference: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2795 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> API-users mailing list >> API-users at lists.gbif.org >> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20160404/af1ce74d/attachment.html>
