Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2023)/Week 4 lecture notes
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* Visiting the website to play around with it first: lets search for "bakery" | * Visiting the website to play around with it first: lets search for "bakery" | ||
** Lets pull up the documentation | ** Lets pull up the documentation | ||
* These query strings have a particular form and they are often multiple; in, near, etc | * These query strings have a particular form and they are often multiple; in, near, etc | ||
* If we want to do it with Python, we will just reproduce the URL the same way | * If we want to do it with Python, we will just reproduce the URL the same way | ||
* Let's do it with Python! | * Let's do it with Python! | ||
* What if we want to have spaces? Uhoh. URLs can't have spaces... | * What if we want to have spaces? Uhoh. URLs can't have spaces... | ||
* Instead, we can use use parameters to query the API (start with boredapi) | |||
* Understanding the output and extracting information | * Understanding the output and extracting information | ||
* | * Passing in [] brackets for amenities | ||
* Passing using bounded and viewbox to limit where we search | * Passing using bounded and viewbox to limit where we search | ||
=== Details on the Nominatim API === | === Details on the Nominatim API === |