General discussion on the "services/caches/search/bbox" method.

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General discussion on the "services/caches/search/bbox" method.

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If I want to implement a "map of caches" - let's say on top of Google Maps - 
then I guess this is the method to retrieve the actual geocache data for the 
current view of the map.
But what to do, when the current map view contains more than 500 geocaches? 
Subdivide the current bbox into two and recursively call the 
"services/caches/search/bbox" method until there are less than 500 geocaches? 

Original comment by [email protected] on 20 Apr 2013 at 10:25

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All direct OKAPI requests are limited to 500 results (some requests have even 
stricter limits).

If you need more than 500 caches, then you can use the replicate module - it 
allows you to retrieve all the caches in the OC database. Then you can write 
your own bbox queries on your own copy of the database.

Original comment by rygielski on 20 Apr 2013 at 4:00

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Ok.

BTW, my prototype implmentation has gone live: http://flopp-caching.de/ (check 
"Zeige Geocaches" in the sidebar to display caches of all OKAPI enabled sites). 

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Apr 2013 at 3:40

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Nice!

Original comment by rygielski on 21 Apr 2013 at 4:05

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It seems to be the case that the latitude and longitude intervals specified are 
interpreted as closed intervals. IMHO it is more logical (and useful) to 
interpret them as half-open intervals. This way bbox requests of adjoining 
coordinates will always give disjoint result.

For example: A request with "bbox=9|53|10|54" and a second request with 
"bbox=10|53|11|54" will both contain caches exactly at E 10° (and people place 
those).

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Nov 2014 at 10:25

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@pjacobi.de: Moved your topic here 
https://code.google.com/p/opencaching-api/issues/detail?id=328

Original comment by rygielski on 24 Nov 2014 at 7:43