Geograph-API-Users Google Group

Re: API Questions

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:36:24 UT

There are a few ways of getting more results in one query - but it
depends on the type of query.
- I'll actully follow up on this off-list, on how to proceed.

But will certainly update the documentation. At some point we changed
the default page size.

As for keys - don't tell anyone, but sometimes they are validated,

API Questions

buildinghist...@offline.org.uk (Steven) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:19:55 UT

Hello,

I noticed in the API documentation that the default RSS search should
return 20 results, however in practice it seems to give 15. For
example:

[link][apikey]

Is it possible to change the number to say 50 for a given api key, or
do I need to generate a search id each time and run multiple get

Packaged bulk mysql downloads!

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:27:34 UT

See:
[link]

We have always been more that happy to produce and give out bulk dumps
on demand to anyone who asks, but the above site is the start of
producing pre-packaged dumps, ready to download at any time.

At the moment they are all `mysqldump` produced text files ready to

Heads Up: Downtime Weds 15th April - AM

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:00:51 UT

Geograph servers are moving to a new home next Wednesday, a brand new
data center with our hosting provider Fubra.

All API calls will return a small 503 responce.

Web pages will be a 307 redirect to a status page - itself a 503.

The full size images will not be available either - again 503s.

Re: [Geograph-API-Users] Not using JSON?

matthew.h...@hallwaystudios.com (Matthew Hall) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:36:12 UT

Gotta say that GigaPan site is awesome!

Best regards,

Matthew Hall
Managing Director

Office: +44 (0)845 803 5563
Direct: +44 (0)7967 293 681

HALLWAY STUDIOS LIMITED

[link]

Re: Not using JSON?

google...@kilgore.demon.co.uk (Kilgore661) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:26:01 UT

Nothing specific. I guess I saw that the API/feeds deliver results in
a variety of formats and as a programmer I prefer JSON because I can
slurp a JSON string directly into a hash. I'm sure one can do that
with XML too but I am too lazy to find out how to do it :-) Actually
I'd like a zipped/LZW JSON string but again that should be no problem

Re: Not using JSON?

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:37:33 UT

Welcome!

I think it's just a matter of been no interest, plus the fact that
many of the APIs where created before JSON become mainstream :)

Anyway what API(s) would you to see JSON with?

Could also be useful to add callback facility to make it easy to use
directly in mashups?

Not using JSON?

google...@kilgore.demon.co.uk (Kilgore661) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:17:26 UT

Hello Everyone.

New member reporting in for duty.

I am a complete noob to geograph.org.uk but I have been doing some cgi
scripting with gigapan.org. The api there uses the JSON format which
works well for me. If you don't know it, all it does is encode a hash
as a string. Simple and effective.

Faster GeoFeeds! (and total count useful?)

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:03:14 UT

We have just changed the 'radius' used on the syndicator interface
from 30km to 10km.

In reality it's unlikely to make much difference to the results - or
at least the first page - which is what is mostly downloaded, as most
areas have well over 15 photos within 10km.

This is so that that these feeds are can be powered by a new search

New getGeographUrl function - update for passing 1M photos

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:03:22 UT

Pretty soon we will be passing 1 million photos, (whoop!) and as such
the current folder structure for storing photos, which will while will
continue to work, is not ideal, so we are implementing a small change
to the folder structure.

This only affects people building their own url to the image file, the

BitTorrent access to Geograph archive

lorde...@gmail.com (Paul Dixon) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:32:44 UT

Bandwidth costs money, and we don't have much, so using BitTorrent to
distribute the entire archive has been appealing idea for some time,
and it's finally available!

Initial announcement:
[link]

Barry posted details on using rtorrent to seed these from a Linux

New RDF api

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (barryhunter) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:47:01 UT

Needs will and all that, anyway needed a way to externally access more
metadata than currently available (easily) though the current API, so
here's a brand spanking new RDF API:

[link]

Enjoy!

Re: [Geograph-API-Users] Re: Recent problem or enhancement

barrybhun...@googlemail.com (Barry Hunter) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:27:02 UT

Hi Toby (and all)
Ah yes, yesterday put out an update, that made the urls consistant
across the site. Hadnt noticed that it affected the PHP output from
the feed syndicator, tho
The solution as you noted is to simply use the full url rather than
add the domain at the start. This is preferable anyway as it would be

Re: Recent problem or enhancement

t...@cullen.org (Toby) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:15:00 UT

THINK I may have spotted the problem.

The suggested code:
nimage[$i]='http://$domain{$fe edItem[$i]->thumbURL}';\n";
has a hardcoded embed of [link] but thumbURL is
now returning a full URL including the (eg) [link].

So the result is a corrupted URL such as:

Recent problem or enhancement

t...@cullen.org (Toby) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:58:06 UT

Some time ago I incorporated a script that Barry kindly provided on to
my own website at: [link]. It
has recently stopped working and returns empty values. Today I went
back to Barry's original example at: [link]
and I notice it shows the same symptoms.