Introduction

The Tools API accepts GET and POST requests. Methods are expressed as resource URIs, they accept a parameter data, and their outputs are either XML or JSON.
The data parameter can have a single value for GET requests or multiple values for POST requests, each separated by line breaks, \\n.
An optional identifier may precede each value, followed by a tab, or a pipe, \|.
For increased performance, set the optional idprovided = TRUE if all your data have identifiers or idprovided = FALSE if none of your data have identifiers.
GET requests for JSON-based URIs may have an additional callback parameter for JSONP responses.

Coordinate conversion

http://data.canadensys.net/tools/coordinates.json
or
http://data.canadensys.net/tools/coordinates.xml

Outputs are expressed as GeoJSON or GML, respectively.

For example: “http://data.canadensys.net/tools/coordinates.json?data=35|45° 32’ 25”N,129° 40’ 31”W&idprovided=TRUE&callback=MyCallback” Produces this answer:

MyCallback({
  type: "FeatureCollection",
  features: [
  {
    type: "Feature",
    geometry: {
      type: "Point",
      coordinates: [-129.6752778,45.5402778]
    },
    properties: {
      originalValue: "45° 32' 25"N,129° 40' 31"W"
    },
    id: "35"
  }
  ]
});

For example: “http://data.canadensys.net/tools/coordinates.xml?data=35|45° 32’ 25”N,129° 40’ 31”W”

Produces this answer:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gml:FeatureCollection
     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
     xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"    
     xmlns:sch="http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron">
  <gml:featureMembers>
    <xs:result gml:id="35">
      <xs:coordinate>
        <gml:Point srsDimension="2">
          <gml:pos>45.540277777777774 -129.67527777777778</gml:pos>
        </gml:Point>
      </xs:coordinate>
      <xs:originalValue>45° 32' 25"N,129° 40' 31"W</xs:originalValue>
    </xs:result>
  </gml:featureMembers>
</gml:FeatureCollection>

Date parsing

http://data.canadensys.net/tools/dates.json
OR
http://data.canadensys.net/tools/dates.xml

e.g. http://data.canadensys.net/tools/dates.json?data=Jun 13, 2008&callback=MyCallback

Produces

MyCallback({
  results: [
  {
    originalValue: "Jun 13, 2008",
    year: 2008,
    month: 6,
    day: 13,
    iso8601: "2008-06-13",
    partial: false
  }
  ]
})