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Post by Rum » Sat May 11, 2019 1:32 pm

This might be of interest to Tero as well as others with an interest in the wild outdoors.

Here in the early summer in particular the sheer variety of plants that spring out of the ground has consistently amazed me. I’ve photographed a few from time to time and looked them up on line but that is clunky and time consuming. Then I stumbled on this app - ‘seek’ on a technology show on tv and looked it up, downloaded it (it is free) and used it for the first time this morning.

Basically you point your phone camera at anything outdoors (plants mostly in my case, and it searches a huge database, identifies the plant and provides a pile of info about it.

I think it is a fantastic app. I identified half a dozen plants this morning I’ve wondered about over the years. Recommended!

Here’s a link.

https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/ale ... naturalist

As an interesting technical aside, it sent 100% accurate (close though) and uses machine learning to improve if people upload info to the website (see link).

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun May 12, 2019 12:06 am

I might recommend that to my daughter. She's got an instagram account where she posts pretty flowers/plants and she likes to identify them if she can.
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Post by laklak » Sun May 12, 2019 5:06 am

...and ye shall find, my son.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by Woodbutcher » Sun May 12, 2019 12:54 pm

laklak wrote:
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...and ye shall find, my son.
Just seek. Don't seek for anything specific, and surely you'll find. I found an android tablet and an iPad in the ditch. Both work.
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Post by rainbow » Mon May 13, 2019 11:50 am

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Post by Alan B » Mon May 13, 2019 1:46 pm

Just installed Android app on my phone - will play later.
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Post by Rum » Mon May 13, 2019 3:41 pm

Alan B wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 1:46 pm
Just installed Android app on my phone - will play later.
Enjoy. I’ve been using it s lot and learnin’ Stuff too!

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