Provide all species locations in a simple, single API call

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Reporter: mdoering
Type: NewFeature
Summary: Provide all species locations in a simple, single API call
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-01-21 10:41:53.681
Updated: 2014-01-21 11:24:40.398

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-01-21 10:58:17.75
Updated: 2014-01-21 10:58:17.75
        
We had a few requests from users of the old portals KML density API that allowed to retrieve all locations for a given taxon key with its density/occurrence counts. There is no equivalent method in the new API that allows to retrive a list of all locations for a given species in one API call. Searching needs paging and is limited to 1 million occurrence records (Passter domesticus has > 10 million!), downloads are asynchronous and more difficult to integrate into classic sequential scripts.

Consider providing a new API call to just list all locations with an occurrence count per given, single taxon key.
Alternatively consider hosting preprepared download archives per taxon so that these can be retrieved in a synchroneous, single http call. Note that there will be about a million archives to prepare regulary which might be out of scope.