Ingest polygon shp bbox

[mvmaltitz]

Can we also enhance the BBox to ingest a shape file polygon? It is not urgent, but it would be a valuable feature to include.

[danangmassandy]

From discussion in the email:

User needs to call a separate API to upload the shapefile, then use the upload/location ID in the API.
The benefit with this approach are:

• Upload once, and can be used in many API calls, this reduces the request size
• Removing the current POST method that only supports uploading GeoJSON in the request body
• We can easily add other supported file formats in the Upload API

GAP will delete the uploaded polygon periodically (like in 2-3 months) to ensure the upload API does not fill up the server storage.
The upload API may send the expiry_date in the response so the user knows about it.