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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Re: [piw] Information I would like to see
  • Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:37:46 -0800

Sean Maley wrote:

We keep the symbol from the usda, for example, then
periodically request information. This work is
scalable if we coordinate hosts.

Does this mean that someone using PIW could request info that we don't have
but USDA does
and an on-the-fly search would occur and results would be returned to that
user white they were still at PIW/
permaculture.info or would they be bounced to the USDA plants db in another
browser window?

For instance:
Start with:
http://plants.usda.gov/Data/statdist/plantlst.txt

Then you have:
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SYMBOL
or the more usable printable version:
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=OCBA&mode=Print&photoID=ocba_001_ahp.tif

Amazing. They have done a good job.


Write a program starting with this

use LWP;
use LWP::Protocol::http;
use URI::Escape;


This is very impressive. Could PIW actually use this procedure?
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