My kids have suddenly developed a fasciation with rocks. One whacked a rock with a hammer, opened it up, and found a fossil inside. A. I’d love to be able to identify it. And B., I’d love to be able to identify the rocks the boys are finding and exploring. Any tips would be most welcome.

I have Rockd on my phone but it isn’t very much like iNaturalist that I noticed.

Maybe I just need to try Rockd more than I have already or maybe that app has been updated since I last tried it.

It’s definitely not like iNat in appearance. I can’t seem to explore the data on the webpage–so all the functionality appears to be on the phone app. On the phone app, be sure to “sign up” because that’s what gives you the ability to post pics of a rock or outcrop at a location–which they call “chec…

It is unlikely that I will be adding observations to Rockd while it is only useful as a phone app and can’t be used on a browser like iNat can. When I go out exploring I use one camera and it isn’t my cell phone camera (I have the cheapest phone one can buy and I don’t think geologists will find th…

Check out this similar thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-an-inaturalist-for-rocks/12638

Hi everyone — I hope it’s okay to add a small update here. A moderator suggested this would be the most findable place for it. Some years after this discussion, I ended up creating a project inspired by this very idea: iMineralogist, an independent app for rocks, minerals, fossils, and field observ…

Very cool! Is it intended as a combined frontend to Rockd etc. or is it also its own database? Are you intending on open sourcing this eventually?

MinDat is for minerals and Rockd is for strata. Collecting rocks takes up a lot of space. Collecting minerals costs a lot of money on top. I do have a couple from years ago, before I decided collecting is not for me. I switched to taking photos of different features: erosion patterns, structures o…

Thank you. The app has it’s own database for the observations its users create. But it is also integrated with mindat, macrostrat, pbdb and rockd databases - it can optionally display their localities too. Do you mean open sourcing the codebase or make a public API? I think I’ll consider it, it the…

Is there an iNaturalist for rocks?

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Is there an iNaturalist for rocks?

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