Google Maps Foraging Database Mashup

[Chris]

http://www.wildcrafting.net/forage/

Please, guys, run through this software and add locations (real ones mind you) and post here any bugs or problems. (your login is the same as the forum by the way)

For an example, I added an asparagus location near my house.

http://www.wildcrafting.net/forage/plant/1/

I know some of the text formatting is wonky by the way.

[wareagle69]

so is this in addition to or instead of? what is the benefit of this, bear with me i'm a little slow

[crashdive123]

so is this in addition to or instead of? what is the benefit of this, bear with me i'm a little slow

If you're traveling or buggin out and need to know where the grocery store is.....

[crashdive123]

Seriously though, this probably explains the intent a bit better. http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ead.php?t=6298

[wareagle69]

ya ya smarty pants

[crashdive123]

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[Rick]

WE - I posted jewel week some time back. I went in this afternoon and put a pin on a US map where I found it. As other folks place pins for jewel weed we'll start seeing the areas where jewel weed can be found (in theory). The other benefit is if you happen to be in an area you'll know what's there. Look at the top of the flower post and you see three tabs. One of them is Location (I think). Click on it and it would display a map of where the plant was found.

[Chris]

Eventually, ideally, it'll become the world's largest database of locations for finding wild edibles. We just gotta get people using it.

You'll be able to go and see everywhere X plant grows. Or you'll be able to go and look and see all plants that grow in your area.

[wareagle69]

is that what we want, the largest database of where to find edibles?need to process that a while, don't mind teaching folks, but hmmmm.

[Chris]

Where you marked that jewelweed rick, did you zoom in all the way with the satellite view? Cause man, Google has some really high resolution over that area. You can zoom in far enough to see individual trees.

[Rick]

Think of WE - We're talkin' Worlds Largest. Right here in our own little forum. And you have an opportunity to get in on the ground floor. But wait, if you add plants right now, we'll throw in your very own access ID and Password to the database and that's not all, if you're the 15th caller you ..... Oooops. Sorry. I got carried away.

[Rick]

Took it down to the max. The database wouldn't let me add at a high level. I had to zoom all the way down.

[Chris]

That is by design, accuracy is fundamental.

[Ken]

This is neat! I'll play around with it when I'm awake. Just pulled another all-nighter in the office and I'm going to bed for at least an hour. Damn, to be young again.........

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

i will be spending time in there! i have some good plant pics to load (i will have to them out of my stack of flash cards).

[Alpine_Sapper]

is that what we want, the largest database of where to find edibles?need to process that a while, don't mind teaching folks, but hmmmm.

Sure, why not? I got wi-fi in the truck, so hitting the db remotely shouldn't be an issue. Should be able to pull up and get a pretty good indicator of what WE I can trip over.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

a most exelent tool, wi fi . my lap top just keeps finding ways to camping with me. is this forum available on the I phone?

[Chris]

is that what we want, the largest database of where to find edibles?need to process that a while, don't mind teaching folks, but hmmmm.

I'm writing an etiquette article for people, explaining they shouldn't just go out and rape and pillage the forest.

There are two ways to use the site. You can use it to share locations.

OR, you can use it to keep a record of your locations, by marking your marks private no one else will be able to see them.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

thats a good idea Chris, if i had use of the database for the last few years i could have an awsome easy to share map of my colonizeing plants hand book, i became interested in plant colony structures after realizing that jerusalem artichokes only grow in sitnging nettle patches(urtica). i have to make time to get busy working on that!

[wareagle69]

thats a good idea Chris, if i had use of the database for the last few years i could have an awsome easy to share map of my colonizeing plants hand book, i became interested in plant colony structures after realizing that jerusalem artichokes only grow in sitnging nettle patches(urtica). i have to make time to get busy working on that!

care to explain that in more detail? not sure i have found that yet