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gollum edited this page Dec 16, 2014 · 2 revisions

Tools for GBIF data

access the database

The database API is described here. But there are a couple of packages that facilitate access to the data:

R

  • rgbif: specialised on GBiF database. provides data calls and simple creation of maps.
  • spocc: more powerful for creating maps, it seems. It provides data from other databases as well.

python

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