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I am trying to get the latitude and longitude for different schools, and keep getting an error. Location is at the root, and I am able to get ids which are also at the root, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

This does not work: https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1/schools?_fields=location.lon&school.name=pepperdine&api_key=**********

but this does: https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1/schools?_fields=id&school.name=pepperdine&api_key=***********

Am I doing something wrong?

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  • Appears to be a defect / mismatch of functionality with the API. Perhaps an idiosyncracy with the underlying API-maker github.com/18F/open-data-maker/blob/api-docs/API.md . Your logic isn't flawed.. it's something odd. Sidenote: I dont see why location isn't nested within school. Also, as a workaround, for your use case, can you just get back all fields and extract location using your code?
    – Mark Silverberg
    Oct 8, 2015 at 12:31
  • Hi Skram, yes, I used a workaround of just I getting all the school ids, making a call for each id, and than getting the lat long that way. However, this requires a lot more code and API calls, and I am hitting my limit for API calls pretty quickly. So good to know it's a bug!
    – Celia
    Oct 9, 2015 at 14:39

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Thank you very much for finding this, and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We've verified that this is indeed a bug. I've created an issue for it here: https://github.com/18F/open-data-maker/issues/227

Thanks,

Holly Allen Product Lead 18F

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