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Biggest issue with inaturalist is the extremely limited scope of their api. I'll be checking this one out, but inaturalist is extremely tight fisted with both
by RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
Biggest issue with inaturalist is the extremely limited scope of their api.
I'll be checking this one out, but inaturalist is extremely tight fisted with both their data and the service, which is extremely disappointing.There is a wide range of utility that could be built on it's back if it were open source.
- morphle 4y agoSadly, this tendency to keep the data proprietary instead of open is found in almost all projects, ususally because of simple US or European copyright reasons. There are ways around this, for example in other countries the copyrights have expired, the copyrights don't always apply, people can be contacted and asked to waive copyrights and new pictures could be made to replace the copyrighted ones, etc. You can 'quote' much of the copyrighted material. There have been government (over)rulings of copyrights. All that implies work that the citizen scientists can do as well.