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Looks great. The app doesn't appear to be open source, just the API docs: https://github.com/plantnet https://github.com/plantnet Given the public funding of th

Looks great. The app doesn't appear to be open source, just the API docs: https://github.com/plantnet https://github.com/plantnet Given the public funding of the project, wouldn't it make sense for the code to be open to welcome contributions/improvements from the community/users?

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
iNaturalist is publicly funded, a wide collaboration, and IIRC mainly FOSS and Open Data. They're using machine learning and knowledge of users to identify flora and fauna; I've found it excellent at doing automatic ID at the genus level (but not really species). https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers
- ImaCake 6y ago
  Depending on what you are interested in (and where) there will be plenty of enthusiastic users willing to identify your observations. In my experience, birds will always get identified, while insects and plants will only sometimes register interest from others. I think it's because bird watching is a popular hobby, while entomologists tend to be a rarer breed.
  - Thrymr 6y ago
    There are also at least 2 orders of magnitude more species of insects on Earth than of birds (>1 million compared with ~10,000). An amateur birder can know a significant fraction of all birds, and all of them commonly found in their location, while no entomologist is anywhere close to knowing all insects.
    - ImaCake 6y ago
      Absolutely, a good point. I would think for the particularly avid birder that you could probably memorize all of them. We certainly have larger vocabularies than that!
- rapnie 6y ago
  Cool. It is a pity that Seek contains 5 trackers and is not available on F-Droid, though. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.inaturalist.seek/latest/ https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.inatura... PlantNet latest only has Google Firebase Analytics as its single tracker.
  - kyleee 6y ago
    Plantnet makes requests to gravatar too (a tracker in my book)
    - rapnie 6y ago
      Yes, quite right.. in mine too.
azepoi 6y ago
The fundation asking for donations is claiming it will be free and open-source > Résultats > Des logiciels gratuits et sous licence Open Source. [French only] https://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/Pl-ntNet https://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/Pl-ntNet

pbhjpbhj 6y ago

iNaturalist is publicly funded, a wide collaboration, and IIRC mainly FOSS and Open Data. They're using machine learning and knowledge of users to identify flora and fauna; I've found it excellent at doing automatic ID at the genus level (but not really species). https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers

ImaCake 6y ago
Depending on what you are interested in (and where) there will be plenty of enthusiastic users willing to identify your observations. In my experience, birds will always get identified, while insects and plants will only sometimes register interest from others. I think it's because bird watching is a popular hobby, while entomologists tend to be a rarer breed.
- Thrymr 6y ago
  There are also at least 2 orders of magnitude more species of insects on Earth than of birds (>1 million compared with ~10,000). An amateur birder can know a significant fraction of all birds, and all of them commonly found in their location, while no entomologist is anywhere close to knowing all insects.
  - ImaCake 6y ago
    Absolutely, a good point. I would think for the particularly avid birder that you could probably memorize all of them. We certainly have larger vocabularies than that!
rapnie 6y ago
Cool. It is a pity that Seek contains 5 trackers and is not available on F-Droid, though. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.inaturalist.seek/latest/ https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.inatura... PlantNet latest only has Google Firebase Analytics as its single tracker.
- kyleee 6y ago
  Plantnet makes requests to gravatar too (a tracker in my book)
  - rapnie 6y ago
    Yes, quite right.. in mine too.

azepoi 6y ago

The fundation asking for donations is claiming it will be free and open-source > Résultats > Des logiciels gratuits et sous licence Open Source. [French only] https://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/Pl-ntNet https://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/Pl-ntNet