Getting Started

[aaron]

Trying to use REST API to create a map.

I am following the basic instructions I have found here

http://geocommons.com/help/Visualization_API , specifically create a
map.

I am doing a post
I am passing in my credentials
I am getting a {"error": "invalid request"}

I have cut and pasted the code directly... I am stumped

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Aaron,

I just did the following combination:

cat map.json | curl -i -u "username:password" -d @- -X POST
http://geocommons.com/maps.json -H "Content-Type:application/json"

With the following json:

{
title: "Map Title",
description: "A description",
tags: "example,tags,more",
extent: [-180,-90,180,90], // [west,south,east,north] -
longitude, latitude decimal degrees - WGS84
basemap: "Google Terrain", // deprecated - will soon be using
Finder raster layers
projection: "EPSG:3785", // not supported yet (default EPSG:3785
- Web Spherical Mercator, aka 'Google Tiles')
}

Were you using a different example that did not work? Could you paste
it into your message?

Thanks,

Kate

[aaron]

I am trying to do this with appcelerator, not CURL

was wondering where I can find documentation on the parameters passed
in the JSON string?

On Feb 18, 4:41 pm, Kate Chapman <k8chap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> I just did the following combination:
>

> cat map.json | curl -i -u "username:password" -d @- -X POSThttp://geocommons.com/maps.json-H "Content-Type:application/json"

>
> With the following json:
>
>  {
>      title: "Map Title",
>      description: "A description",
>      tags: "example,tags,more",
>      extent: [-180,-90,180,90],    // [west,south,east,north] -
> longitude, latitude decimal degrees - WGS84
>      basemap: "Google Terrain", // deprecated - will soon be using
> Finder raster layers
>      projection: "EPSG:3785", // not supported yet (default EPSG:3785
> - Web Spherical Mercator, aka 'Google Tiles')
>  }
>
> Were you using a different example that did not work?  Could you paste
> it into your message?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kate
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, aaron <aaronksaund...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Trying to use REST API to create a map.
>
> > I am following the basic instructions I have found here
>

> >http://geocommons.com/help/Visualization_API, specifically create a

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Aaron,

We did a little bit of work with GeoIQ and Appcelerator at a hack day.
Some of the API calls are here:
https://github.com/fortiusone/Flying-Pancakes/blob/master/Resources/geoiq.js

At the moment we are cleaning up our documentation. I'll see about
getting the map portion into better shape in the next day or two.

Thanks,

Kate

[aaron]

I took a look at that code and none of those examples create a map?

Looking forward to updated documentation

On Feb 18, 6:13 pm, Kate Chapman <k8chap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>

> We did a little bit of work with GeoIQ and Appcelerator at a hack day.

>  Some of the API calls are here:https://github.com/fortiusone/Flying-Pancakes/blob/master/Resources/g...

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Aaron,

I haven't gotten as far as I hoped with updating the documentation.
It is currently an ongoing work to make things more clear.

I have updated some things for creating a map here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Zg514AMWpfpR6rLW93bCTSbXf58ywE3jnwZr1rOWQo/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJbi58QP

You definitely need the title and basemap parameters for creating a
map. Could you try it with just those and let me know what happens.
Also if you could share your code so far that would greatly help.

Thanks,

Kate

[aaron]

here is my code

// get the login information and let it roll!!
try {
var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();

xhr.open("POST","http://geocommons.com/maps.json");

// set credentials
var authstr = 'Basic '
+Titanium.Utils.base64encode("aaronksaunders:password");
xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', authstr );
xhr.setRequestHeader('content-Type', "application/json" );

xhr.onerror = function(e)
{
Ti.API.info("ERROR " + e.error);
};

xhr.onload = function() {
Titanium.API.log(xhr.responseText);
};

xhr.onreadystatechange = function (aEvt) {
if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
if (xhr.status == 200) {
Titanium.API.log("status 200 ");
}
}
};
var param = JSON.stringify({

title: "Map Title",
description: "A description",
tags: "example,tags,more",
extent: [-180,-90,180,90],

basemap: "Google Terrain",
projection: "EPSG:3785"
});
Titanium.API.log(param);
xhr.send(param);
} catch(err) {
Titanium.UI.createAlertDialog({
title: "Error",
message: String(err),
buttonNames: ['OK']
}).show();

}

On Feb 21, 9:13 pm, Kate Chapman <k8chap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>

> I haven't gotten as far as I hoped with updating the documentation.
> It is currently an ongoing work to make things more clear.
>

> I have updated some things for creating a map here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Zg514AMWpfpR6rLW93bCTSbXf58ywE3j...