Luckily for me, I am yet to discover any "API for Dummies" instructions. Fancy ideas is all I have. And this project
http://www.geni.com/projects/World-Family-Tree-Facts-on-Geni/9203. Only a few MPs have geographical data added to the profiles, so mapping all popular people would be a challenge anyway.
Jadra, are you saying that it would be a piece of cake to design an app to produce some graphics (charts, maps, etc.) from data available in http://www.geni.com/popular?
Liivi, - if you are a C# programmer using for example the Html Agility Pack to process the 20 popular profiles pages to extract the rank and profile GUID's does only require a few code-lines. I have done it several times on other Geni web pages, and in one example with only two statements. With the profile guid you can use the API to access profile details and process them in the way you want (for example generating CSV files for further processing in for example excel unless you want to implement charting yourself).
C# is a programming language, so you have to develop your own program connecting to the API using OAuth desktop authorization, traverse the tree in 15 generations and write some code to export the data as CSV date or if you are loading into a datagrid use the export functionality there.
http://www.geni.com/platform/developer/help
Hey Bjorn, thanks for the tip, I am actually a SQL Server developer myself, but I'm just curious, do you have any example code that you could post or email me? Email is matthewcoxinvest at/@ gmail dt. coom. Something like just downloading 15 or 30 generations or so, for a particular ID into a text or excel file would be nice. The downloads they have here, either get too few or too many rows.
Thanks,
Matthew