Topic: Intermittent REST grid maps
I've managed to migrate my simple grid map interface from using web-services to using REST and the result is at http://www.bedscape.org.uk/BRMC/newsite … es_maps_g5
However the grid map returned is unreliable.
- Sometimes it is perfect.
- Sometimes it has the os background, vc boundary and grid but has no actual species records mapped, even when I know there are many. (This almost looks like a race-condition between the thing drawing the map and the thing supplying the records to it.)
- Sometimes I don't get an image at all.
Am I doing something wrong or is this problem at the NBN end? This is partly undocumented territory so I may well have something not quite right.
Oh, and sometimes taxonDatasets/{id}/taxa returns an empty response, so if there isn't a species list to select from, then that is why. Just keep trying until you get one...! e.g. right now https://data.nbn.org.uk/api/taxonDatasets/GA000458/taxa is returning an empty response...
Keith