I’m working with a small local organization to use iNat Data to hi-light wildlife visitors to a sub-set of native plants based on phenology. The organization occasionally offers tours of their restored area (around 70 acres) that includes native plantings and naturally occurring natives. They want a participatory application that a broad network of people can contribute to. They also want it to be simple enough that a casual attendee to one of their tours can immediately understand the application and the data.
Since many of the plants are cultivated, the plant species is “known”. This means I can build a list of plant species that are currently in bloom during the tour and which have a reasonable amount of wildlife data collected by a group of network participants. Here’s a link to the current version of the app (the amount of wildlife data will grow as participation in the network grows)…
wildlife activity by plant
They’re looking at using the app on the tours they offer starting in 2027. The plant list is relatively static, so I could possibly cache the list in the browser tab. I still need to switch to the v2s. I could probably specify the fields I need to reduce the amount of data being passed back and forth. Basically, does the concept overall seem ok?