iNaturalist

“much more the same kind of endless opportunity for discovery that computers felt like”

“I have found great value in assistive tools Merlin and Seek/iNaturalist for bird and plant identification.”

“iNaturalist is and the apk can be directly installed from the GitHub releases page”

“iNaturalist is great for stuff like this as it allows organizations to create projects for data collection on specific species.”

“it's not capital-S Science unless they make the model build path open and others can replicate and test it freely”

“iNaturalist confuses even me about what buttons I'm supposed to be pressing”

“I do agree, and on iNat I can clearly see my house and the house of a few other people in the neighborhood.”

“as they don't publish their models or model-building-process, it's non-replicable, so in my view it's not Science”

“the app is great, feels like pokemon for animals in chicago”

“a huge unexpected benefit has been having my photos catalogued and findable by species, family, date or location”

“It's the closest thing to real-life Pokemon I know of.”

“Merlin, ebird, rock identifier, and inaturalist are some of the great apps to use while out in nature.”

“Helped me ID some ink caps growing on a bale of hay”

“I really like how easy it is to use, the various views on the data (incl. geofenced projects and places), the fact you can export it all back out again”

“The fact that a citizen science platform accidentally produced one of the most important biodiversity ML datasets is kind of remarkable.”

“This app sparked a kind of existential change for me, also during the pandemic.”

“The data is really useful for science and for machine learning.”

“a fair number of users add enough detail to make me think that they don't realize that their info is so public”

“the little infographic that shows "how it works" looks like the cloudflare warning when cloudflare can't connect to the host”

“It has options to hide or obscure the location, which I use whenever I'm anywhere near my house, but it should be a little better about prompting users to use that.”

“There's an option to obscure the exact location of plants, but it's not obvious.”

“in terms of usability it's uncommonly good compared to most biodiversity platforms”

“the default should be low precision location data with a random offset per item”

“it's also a significant doxxing risk especially for the large number of non-technical users”

“They should publish their models and build process. If it's not available for replication, it's not science.”

“it's great, it really helped me learn about my local fauna”

“it'd be a lot cooler if they released their models”

“iNaturalist is great for identification and information, but it lacked the fun and soul we were looking for.”

“people would pile on with species-level IDs on pictures that were obviously ambiguous between different species”

“iNaturalist data is often a good starting place for determining which government bodies/NGOs”

“I really feel inatuslist is the best tool for the average person to do this.”

“it does everything Seek does, but better and it’s generally also faster”

“iNaturalist is a really powerful tool for initial data exploration.”

“I didn't see papers where the data was part of researching the plants and animals”

“I think the iNaturalist app is great and I've used it before and enjoyed it.”

“I use it to ID cool insects I come across, I get responses within few minutes to hours.”

“I tried getting into the iNaturalist app several times and it just never stuck.”

“It's a massive dataset. There's nothing quite like it. The way people collaborate and verify information on iNat is invaluable.”

“It's a living biodiversity record. That kind of data has had an impact on things like”

“iNaturalist [1] is kind of "gamified". Has a rather large "bird" taxon observation amount.”