After 3 years of actively contributing to iNat I’ve just realized I haven’t come across tools, bookmarklets, widgets developed by 3rd parties. As a point of comparison, Wikimedia has hundreds of such tools primarily built and maintained by volunteers for curation purposes, for performing repetitive …

I have built a smartphone app to help with identifying observations to high level taxa (animal, plant, mushroom). https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/am-looking-for-some-test-users-of-an-identification-app/430

Someone made a “guessing the species” game too. Sorry, didn’t save the link.

In fact there’re 2 games like that (from what was posted on the forum).

[image] fmiudo: Someone made a “guessing the species” game too. Sorry, didn’t save the link. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/biodiversity-education-quiz-game/24454/33 I did not save it either. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-well-do-you-know-your-local-wildlife-now-you-can-test-yourself…

I use this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inaturalist-enhancement-s/hdnjehcihcpjphgbkagjobenejgldnah

@pisum has made some stuff on Github as sort of addons to iNaturalist using the API to do specialized searches for things.

There’s Dronefly , which is a bot made by @benarmstrong . It’s used by the unofficial iNaturalist Discord server , and has a bunch of handy features for searching and displaying observation and species info in a condensed, chat-friendly format. And I work on pyinaturalist , which is a python API client…

Two tools that I use almost daily are: iNaturalist user-script in Wikidata and iNaturalist2Commons And there is my own stubmaker that I use to draft Wikipedia articles. It is a jupyter notebook that fetches information from iNaturalist, GBIF, BHL, Wikimedia commons and combines that into a Wikipedi…

what is a “tool”? is it an Excel spreadsheet that takes a standard CSV export and generates a bunch of visualizations? is it a pre-defined publicly shared map layer in ArcGIS Online that displays all iNaturalist observations? is it a small web page that shows people their longest observation streaks…

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marina_gorbunova August 31, 2021, 11:19am 3

Depends on what level of tools you’re looking for, but many people are doing diverse stuff https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/several-external-tools-for-inat-data-by-kildor/19906

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