I have been volunteering with an organization that uses OTM, and we had a conversation that came up about connecting OTM to iNaturalist for species identification.
The workflow as I imagine it would be as follows:
- User creates tree
- User uploads photo
- On the image sharing modal, an option is given for iNaturalist
- Clicking that lets the user submit the image to iNaturalist
- OTM keeps track of the iNaturalist observation id
- On a scheduled basis, OTM checks iNaturalist to see if the image has been identified with a species.
I started playing around with this idea, and I have some pieces working on the backend Django app. I would need to add test cases and clean up the UI component.
I assumed we could configure this as optional within the local_settings.py. You would need to create an iNaturalist project for this to work.
If this is a reasonable idea, I can create separate issues for the phone apps.
I have been volunteering with an organization that uses OTM, and we had a conversation that came up about connecting OTM to iNaturalist for species identification.
The workflow as I imagine it would be as follows:
I started playing around with this idea, and I have some pieces working on the backend Django app. I would need to add test cases and clean up the UI component.
I assumed we could configure this as optional within the local_settings.py. You would need to create an iNaturalist project for this to work.
If this is a reasonable idea, I can create separate issues for the phone apps.