Should we support maps API?

[sckott]

Should we support the maps API?

If so, def. wait for /v2 to come out

[peterdesmet]

I have no use case (yet).

[sckott]

Okay, me neither. Recently accepted a PR in the R client for maps, main use case getting raster objects which users can use in analysis pipelines, or viz

[sckott]

maps v2 is out https://www.gbif.org/developer/maps 🎉

[sckott]

@peterdesmet if you have any interest, you can test this out - installing from the map-api branch

[peterdesmet]

I'd like to, but don't have the time for it right now. 😬

[sckott]

if you want to try the maps module:

pip install https://github.com/sckott/pygbif/archive/map-api.zip

from pygbif import maps
out = maps.map(taxonKey = 2435098)
out.response
out.path
out.img
out.plot()

out = maps.map(taxonKey = 2480498, year = range(2007, 2011+1))
out.plot()