Getting started with the Trove API

In the morning session of the THATCamp Brisbane Hackathon, we explored the Trove API, first running through a tutorial and playing with some code to conduct searches using the official API; then looking at Tim Sherratt’s fantastic unofficial API and running some QueryPic searches; before getting somewhat distracted with discussion of the history of the Lamington.

We also briefly talked about geocoding: We discussed the Geoscience Australia Gazetteer Release, and then we looked at some examples of maps that were created using the automatic geocoding features of Google Fusion Tables.