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Unable to bundle descendants of Earth #45

Closed stepps00 closed 7 years ago

stepps00 commented 7 years ago

https://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/spelunker/download/0/#0/-0/0

When trying to download a bundle of records that are descendants of Earth, the descender tool is unable to create a GeoJSON collection or CSV summary. The following error is given:

Error: Missing 'id' parameter (432)

Command that will illustrate the error:

curl -X GET 'https://whosonfirst-api.mapzen.com?method=whosonfirst.places.getDescendants&api_key=mapzen-xxxxxx&id=0&format=json'

Related: https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data/issues/811

thisisaaronland commented 7 years ago

I know what the problem is here but it does beg the question of whether it should even be possible to do this, because it represents a prohibitive strain on the databases.

What are you trying to fetch exactly, besides "everything" ?

dphiffer commented 7 years ago

:earth_americas:

stepps00 commented 7 years ago

I need to grab a feature collection of any descendant record of Earth (record with "earth_id" in the wof:hierarchy property) for a wof-data issue (whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data#811), which should be about 3,000 records.

I'm able to grep the repo locally to collect ids, so I have a work-around. I doubt this will be a frequent task; leaving this behavior in it fine by me.