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API Documentation

API Overview

The Burning Man API is free for you to use and build with. Most of the examples here are for 2009, but as we get data for 2010 it will be published to these APIs. Right now, you can access the Theme Camp names, Art names, and Events for 2010.

The API currently supports two formats, XML and JSON. By default it will return JSON. If you wish to consume XML, pass the API the keypair format=xml. If you want JSONP, provide the keypair callback=myclbk.

Methods

The API supports the following methods to receive Burning Man data.

Theme Camps

• http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/camp/

  jQuery Theme Camps example [source]
• Camp with id 1663

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/camp/1663/

  jQuery Theme Camp example [source]

Art Installations

• http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/art/

  jQuery Art example [source]
• Art with ID 540

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/art/540/

Events

• All Events

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2010/event/

  jQuery Events example [source]
• Event with ID 1676

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/event/1676/

• Events starting after Sept 1st

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/event/?start_time=2009-09-01%2018:00

• Events before Sept 1st

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/event/?end_time=2009-09-01%2018:00

• Events between Sept 1st and Sept 2nd

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/event/?end_time=2009-09-02%2018:00&start_time=2009-09-01%2018:00

• You don't have to specify the time if you don't want to as well

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/event/?end_time=2009-09-01&start_time=2009-09-02

Streets and Infrastructure:

• Annular streets for 2009

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/cstreet/

• Time streets for 2009

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/tstreet/

• Infrastructure for 2009

  http://earth.burningman.com/api/0.1/2009/infrastructure/

Geocoder

• The geocoder maps playa addresses to Lat/Lon. A reverse geocoder (lat/lon->nearest playa address is in the works)

  http://earth.burningman.com/brc/geocoder/2009/9:00/kinship/

  http://earth.burningman.com/brc/geocoder/2009/2:00/esplanade/

  http://earth.burningman.com/brc/geocoder/2009/4:20/dna/

Tiles

• "Standard Web" Tiles (or Google Scheme or Spherical Mercator) are available at

  http://earthdev.burningman.com/osm_tiles2/$zoom/$col/$row.png

  Example usage in OpenLayers is here. Also there is a jsBin example map.

GPS files

2009_art.gpx
2009_infrastructure.gpx
2009_camps.gpx
2009 Garmin IMG

API Examples

Flickr machine tag scoreboard [source]
Machine Tag Lookup Tool [source]

Legal

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These materials are not to be used or distributed in any form which may be sold for profit.