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Many countries already have applications like this with databases ranging back into the eighties or even earlier, and are used both by professionals and others.
by stinos 7y ago
Many countries already have applications like this with databases ranging back into the eighties or even earlier, and are used both by professionals and others. And a lot of them. So unfortunately I don't see those people leaving their track record behind and swith, which is going to lead to uncovered areas in this application. Unless they can hook into each others databases?
- mongol 7y agoMany of these databases export their data to https://www.gbif.org/ https://www.gbif.org/. But there is some delay. The feed from Swedish Artportalen was weekly, when I looked into this some years ago.
- brudgers 7y agoThe iPhone App shows other people's geotagged sightings on a map. Not just your own.
- stinos 7y agoI'm aware, my point is rather that it does something which other apps also do already and did so for much longer, making me wonder if it's going to see any traction. E.g. iNaturalist shows me like 10 observations in the past month for my location. Obsmapp shows me hundreds for the last week.
- brudgers 7y agoI did not know about obsmap. A few months ago I came across iNaturalist looking for species information for the Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge in California. iNaturalist had a lot of information for that specific site as well as for Monterey County, CA in general. Just now looking at Obsmap for the first time, I saw fewer observations for the Salinas River NWR and surrounding area. But it looked like the activity may be more broadly worldwide. It doesn't look like what I was looking for. That doesn't make Obsmap bad, just maybe less useful for me. Probably depends on where a person is observing. Thanks for turning me on to it though. Maybe it will come in useful in my future.