API for gathering nodes?
The API doesn’t give information about nodes, and that’s good, because that would only attract bots..
Bots have – or should I say had – ways of finding nodes long before the API. But I haven’t seen a gather-bot in at least four months now, so it seems that Anet has figured out how to detect them and ban them efficiently. Either way, exposing node locations in the API wouldn’t affect bots significantly.