myAmerica Wildlife Tracker

[BoozAllenDigital]

Develop a mobile experience for wildlife enthusiasts that mashes up publicly-available data (e.g. RIDB, PADUS, etc.) so they can browse, search, and add their own (e.g. photo, audio, video) wildlife sightings. Potential features could include:

• Users can add a new sighting (e.g. tweet w/photo) based on their geo-location, and tag with specific hashtags (e.g. #greatblueheron, #californiacondor #baldeagle)
• Users can search / browse user-generated sightings based on their specific location, or via a map interface and specific filters
• Administrators and Staff can scan usage information to improve park experience / management (e.g. wildlife tracking, visitor experience, traffic/crowds)

[ryanbranciforte]

A nice implementation of this idea in California - http://content.stamen.com/caliparks http://www.caliparks.org/

[danrademacher]

social media is one way to do this (thanks for the shout out for CaliParks.org!), but if you want more actionable wildlife data, I'd say go for inaturalist or ebird. iNat has a good API and broad taxonomic coverage: http://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference. eBird has huge amounts of data but (not surprisingly) is just birds, and I haven't ever tried to use the API, though they do have one, https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/CLOISAPI/eBird+API+1.1