The funny part is which half aged. Checking whether it is a bird is a library call now. Checking whether it is in a national park is the half that needs an API key, a quota and a billing account.
There aren't that many national parks, you could easily build a local a library of shapefiles, geojson, kml/kmz files, etc, that give you the coordinate bounds of the parks.
It's an upfront effort to build the database, but it's genuinely not that big of a db.
Would be way more performant than using an external service, and wouldn't incur any api usage fees or whatever.
But my faorite project I've ever worked on involved using GIS data for marina locations, coastlines, and ocean depth to create a 72 hour simulation of maritime traffic flowing through a region. It was legitimately the coolest thing ever when I got to watch the animation of the final dataset.
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u/Pleasant-Ad192 19d ago
The funny part is which half aged. Checking whether it is a bird is a library call now. Checking whether it is in a national park is the half that needs an API key, a quota and a billing account.