4 ms·
Congratulations and well done. I'm just downloading it now. My first thoughts were if it was able to identify the 320+ species of native trees we have here in N
by morganpyne 15y ago
Congratulations and well done. I'm just downloading it now. My first thoughts were if it was able to identify the 320+ species of native trees we have here in NZ. My second thought was to wonder if it can be trained by the users to learn new species? (I'm still waiting for the app to finish downloading so have not tried it yet). It would be great to expand your knowledge base by having user contributions, perhaps in a curated or weighted submission process.
- apu 15y agoThanks! We currently have coverage of about 200 species from the northeast US. We're focusing on expanding the coverage to the rest of the US (~500 more species)...and then the world! We definitely want to take advantage of user contributions in some way, but we're still trying to figure out the best thing to do. Also, the app contains several very high-quality images of each species taken in a particular way by a talented group called FindingSpecies, and to keep the visual integrity of the app, we would want very similar photos for all species that we add. This might be difficult to outsource to the crowd.
- defrost 15y agoIt's not something that can be readily outsourced to "the crowd" in general but it is something that can achieved using a hierarchy of interested/invested self checking power users. It's a similar problem to that faced by, say, open source projects that aim to maintain a certain level of code quality and style matching in contributed source code. Addendum: the image collections of the Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Australian National Herbarium might be of interest to you down the track: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/photo-collection/index.html http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/photo-collection/index.html