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Global Invasive Species Information Network database has a REST API #269

Closed sckott closed 9 years ago

sckott commented 10 years ago

http://www.gisin.org/DH.php?WC=/WS/GISIN/GISINDirectory/WebservicesForConsumers.html&WebSiteID=4

perhaps incorporate

sckott commented 10 years ago

im sure @kgturner wouldn't mind

eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

+100 The ability to search for specific countries is very valuable and extents the current gisd_isinvasive function!

Not perhaps - of course! I am very excited about this! Who should do it? Me or you?

Perhaps we should also have functions that return the available ISO- country codes?

sckott commented 10 years ago

If you have time, please do

We also have eol_invasive

I have isocodes in rgbif if that can be used here 

library(rgbif)
isocodes
eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

@sckott Can you get their API to work? E.g. querying the data for Dreissena polymorpha works:

http://www.gisin.org/GISIN/GISINWebService/WebService2.php?Op=Search&Model=SpeciesStatus&scientificname=dreissena%20polymorpha&harmful=Yes

However filtering for Germany (CountryCode=DE) does not work. http://www.gisin.org/GISIN/GISINWebService/WebService2.php?Op=Search&Model=SpeciesStatus&scientificname=dreissena%20polymorpha&CountryCode=DE

Unfortunately, even their example on their webpage does not work: http://www.gisin.org/GISIN/GISINWebService/WebService2.php?Op=Search&Model=SpeciesStatus&ScientificName=Acacia%20dealbata&CountryCode=PT&Presence=Present&Harmful=Yes

I tried to contact them a while ago, but not response yet :(

sckott commented 10 years ago

I just tried some of these calls. I don't know why some of them don't return data. The ones that don't return data don't give any error messages either.

I guess I can't offer any help :( Hopefully they will get back to you soon. I'll see if there's anyone on twitter that can help - that's usually pretty successful.

eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

Thx,

sckott commented 10 years ago

Those examples that didn't work before still don't work. @EDiLD Any response from them?

eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

Last status is from end of may was:

We will look into the country query API bug.

Just send a new mail to the maintainers (you're in bcc).

sckott commented 10 years ago

Thanks

eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

Got an email back:

Hi Eduard,Sorry, we haven't had much progress on the bug since our funding for the site is currently covering very basic maintenance tasks. I'll email you when we get this resolved. Thanks,Russ

sckott commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the update @EDiLD - :hammer: :wrench:

eduardszoecs commented 10 years ago

Got an email again:

It looks like our developer fixed the country code bug on GISIN.org. Thanks,Russell

Haven't checked it yet, will do when time permits.

sckott commented 10 years ago

sounds good @EDiLD

sckott commented 9 years ago

closing, moved this to the traits pkg