Comments for Ergast Developer API

Comment on Bug Reports by R

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:56:43 +0000

http://ergast.com/api/f1/circuits/estoril
Country should be “Portugal”, not “Spain”.

Regards,
R

Comment on Bug Reports by Admin

Admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:46:50 +0000

Many thanks. I hadn’t announced coverage of 1950 - 1980 on the website but it’s there if you look for it. There are some issues to be resolved (such as the need to specify two drivers per entry in some instances) and it looks like it needs careful checking.

Comment on Bug Reports by David Hughes

David Hughes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:12:05 +0000

http://ergast.com/api/f1/1951

Has the Italian GP listed as being in the Country “Spain”

Comment on Feedback by Admin

Admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:50 +0000

The only current plan is to extend the database to include all seasons back to 1950 when the championship started. In principle, it would be good to cover some other motor racing series but I’m reluctant to take on the responsibility for data entry - this has to be timely and carefully checked. Perhaps the best plan would be to tidy up the code and release it as an open source project so that anyone could set up a service to cover another formula.

Comment on Feedback by David Hughes

David Hughes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Excellent API…

Wish I had found it earlier could have saved me sooooo much time when running the Fantasy Formula 1 for my work!

What’s the plans for next season and other sports?

David

Comment on FAQ by Admin

Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:39:03 +0000

Hi Vito. The delay has typically been around 2 hrs this season. In the future it will depend when the race starts relative to my local time and whether I am dedicated enough to be awake!

Results capture is semi-automatic, using Wikipedia (since I use Wikipedia URLs as unique identifiers for all entities) with manual checking against FIA records before publication.

Comment on FAQ by Vito A

Vito A — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:16:04 +0000

Very cool! I was wondering why the delay for the race results? Are you grabbing the data automatically from the formula1.com website, or are you entering the race data manually into your database?

Comment on Feedback by jax

jax — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:24:20 +0000

This is an excellent API. Is there any chance of getting the race lap times? I believe this is published in PDF format, although it could be alot of data.

jax

Comment on FAQ by Kieren

Kieren — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:48:13 +0000

The API looks fantastic. I was just wondering, for the coming season, how soon after a round do you expect the data be available via the API?

Admin: Kieren - I’ve added a comment above.

Comment on Feedback by mapperz

mapperz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:15:14 +0000

Just a quick suggestion
It would be fairly easy to generate location maps of circuits with the data you are already outputting in xml or json using google maps api or virtual earth
[VE likely to be better as has birds eye view option for major cities]

Sliverstone Aerial only
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=52.078969~-1.017061&style=h&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Monaco [Birds Eye on]
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=r8pfn3hmjr5h&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=10983651&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

however i would suggest ‘long’ is changed to ‘lng’

as ‘Long’ is a reserved word for many database [SQL] based queries.

it would save troube in future.

An excellent API - well laided out and easy to understand.

Mapperz