<html><body><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">Like Greg, I am also quite skeptical about this endeavor. As Greg says, this could quickly add up to a *huge* amount data that is of little interest to the majority of the OSM community.</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">And are you actually sure this is what your users want?</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">As I studied plant ecology, I actually think it far more likely your users would like to be able to see similarly determinated plants in their wider neigborhood on a map.</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">That doesn't require uploading all of this to OSM, instead requires you to set up your own rendering server for OSM (or buy commercial support for this), and add a map component to the Pl@ntNet app, and then dynamically overlay observations from your own database inside the app on top of the map.</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">I think this will be a far more useful and logical solution to the needs of the Pl@ntNet users.</div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="auto">Marco</div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature" dir="auto"><div><br></div><a href="https://aka.ms/ghei36">Outlook voor Android downloaden</a></div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container" dir="auto"><br><hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Van:</strong> Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com><br><strong>Verstuurd:</strong> dinsdag 9 augustus 2022 18:37<br><strong>Aan:</strong> Hugo Gresse <contact@plantnet-project.org><br><strong>CC:</strong> dev@openstreetmap.org <dev@openstreetmap.org><br><strong>Onderwerp:</strong> Re: [OSM-dev] Pl@ntNet contributing to OpenStreetMap<br></div><br>
My response here is to the part of your question that should have been
on talk@; it's not so much about mechanics and the API but "should you"?
I am a bit skeptical of the wisdom of this endeavor. I recommend that
you think hard about the relationship between:
your subcommunity wanting to publish data of particular interest to
them
the costs and benefits to the broader OSM community
So I would ask: do you think the data to be added would be viewed as
generally useful to others? </div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container" dir="auto">...</div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container" dir="auto">Adding individual plants (other than trees) could easily cross into an
overwhelming amount of data.<br></div></body></html>