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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 flor
by pbhjpbhj 7y 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 7y agoDepending 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 7y agoThere 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 7y agoAbsolutely, 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 7y agoCool. 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.