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### database api, via HTTP(s), REST

## GET only
/api/1/get_directories
# out, text/json: { "Foo Foo": "long description", "Street Art": "Temporary and Semipermanent art" }


## GET only
/api/1/get_points_by_place/(\d+)/(\d+)/(\w+)
# retrieves JSON of closest 1000 items
# 1: latitude
# 2: longitude
# 3: directory name
# out, text/json: array of dicts, which contain id, lat, lon, tags list (which contains arbitrary extensible string data, with id (for reporting) colon keyname colon arbitrary value)
# eg -> /api/1/get_points_by_place/-23.7432381/81.1245616/Street+Art
#    <- [ { "id:926,"lat":-23.7243115,"lon":81.21623,"tags":["124:artist:Alice","152:artist:Bob","tagid:tagkey:tagvalue","193:medium:spraypaint","12:title:Aaaht","72:caption:something obsene","991:photo:http://example.com/12341"]},  { "lat":-23.6123112,"lon":81.743255, }   ]


## GET only
/api/1/get_points_recently_changed/(\w+)
# 1: directoryname


## POST only
/api/1/assert_point_destroyed
# post params:
#     pointid required
#     personhint request


## POST only
/api/1/create_point
# post params:
#    directory required
#    latitude required
#    longitude required
#    personhint required
# out, text/json:  int of new point id, to be used next in add_point_data probably
# eg <- 42

## POST only
/api/1/add_point_tag
# adds a new tag about some point
# post params:
#    pointid required
#    key reqired
#    value required
#    personhint required
# out, text/json: str of resulting tagstring
# eg <- "124312:keyname:example example arbitry data including colons after:::first two example"


## POST only
/api/1/report_for_review
# post params:
#    personhint required
#    tagstring required
#    why optional
#