GBIF web services on the rise

Look out EOL, Dave Martin has been very quickly creating some superb web services for GBIF data. Check out the GBIF portal wiki or the various name search APIs that produce text, xml, JSON, or simple deep-linking: HERE. As an example of the kinds of things Dave and Tim Robertson have been producing, here is a map gadget showing all the records in a 1 degree cell shared to GBIF from The Nearctic Spider Database: