gbifmap is broken

[karthik]

All the examples and tutorials we have on the site and many of our talks don't work anymore. gbifmap was replaced by gbifmap_dens and gbifmap_list and this doesn't seem to map out correctly.

for e.g.

> a <- occurrencelist(scientificname = "Puma concolor", coordinatestatus = TRUE, maxresults = 40)
> gbifmap(a)
Error: could not find function "gbifmap"

[sckott]

Added gbifmap back with a message that it is deprecated, and to use gbifmap_list or gbifmap_dens. commit 0302fda

I agree these kinds of changes are to be avoided, in the branch based on the new api we move back to just having gbifmap. I will update the tutorial

[karthik]

Just curious why you didn't overload the function. It makes more sense to me that we'd have one function called gbifmap with a option to be list or density.

gbifmap(foo, opts = "density")
gbifmap(foo, opts = "list")

seems cleaner.

[sckott]

That does make more sense. However, in the new api the density endpoint is gone, so you only have point occurrences to worry about, and we're moving back to just one mapping function gbifmap