Open trustpizza opened 3 weeks ago
taking a look at this tonight - will see if I can get something with rough edges working
found this - docs to the PLANTS API
https://github.com/USDA/USDA-APIs/issues/7#issuecomment-557136892
edit: bleh, it's down. This collection looks promising.
It seems this data is not readily available with the granularity we need. There are a handful of native plant databases, but none have documented API access.
I have some ideas, and I think it involves doing a bit of cross referencing results across the different databases.
What are your thoughts on this: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers
Seems like a cool open sauce solution
It does! I'll check it out
Addition Idea:
The app is intended to work as such:
Problem:
The Average person is pretty dumb, and 50% of them are dumber. They don't know what plants are native, what they look like, etc. I am software engineer, I don't know shit about plants, I'm the 50% here^.
It would be nice if we could have a ruby based API service that based off of the address of a development site (they each have an address in the data model) we could pull native plants with at least this data: plant: { plant_name: "", plant_image_link: "", plant_characteristics?: (here I'm uncertain, but any useful information in identifying plants so that people can know what to look for) }
With this we can later build out views so someone can click "native species nearby" or something and see what a local ecosystem should look like.