Consider including Global Gazeteer requests via API

[tmcelrath]

https://localityservice.uc.r.appspot.com/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujfTNhHSkLU5tPeLWCc1EbAR-260Ljrf/view

Could be a great way to auto-georeference and auto-contribute georeferences to community

Also we need to consider "Are we meeting these georeference standards?"

[mjy]

@tmcelrath can you be more specific. Are you wanting to return results TW data via /api/v1/georeferences, for example, or are you wanting to use a specific service integrated into the UI?

I feel the last bit ( Also we need to consider "Are we meeting these georeference standards?) might be a better issue for taxonworks_doc standing alone as an issue there?

[tmcelrath]

I would like to use the API of Global Gazeteer to auto-suggest localities of un-georeferenced specimens in TW

[debpaul]

Revelant side note @tmcelrath @mjy there is a (funded) group building an API service for just this purpose, known as BELS. See Biodiversity Enhanced Location Services. https://github.com/VertNet/bels.

[tmcelrath]

This tool has progressed as of 28 Sep 2022 - would be amazing to run queries via BELS API: https://github.com/VertNet/bels

[mjy]

We need documentation on a REST or API interface to consider progress.

[tmcelrath]

"Next steps include a REST API and the incorporation of higher geography term standardization based on VertNet vocabularies, Kurator workflows, and verbatim data shared via VertNet, iDigBio, and GBIF."

[tmcelrath]

https://github.com/VertNet/bels/wiki/User-Manual-for-the-BELS-Georeference-Matcher#georeference-matcher-api - API documentation provided. via VertNet/bels#62 (comment)