Open and Free Plant Identification API
It's great that citizen science space for collecting ecological or biodiversity data is is growing. I'm curious why the consortium members behind Pl@ntNet are all French. Compare that to iNaturalist, which features partner organizations in 21 countries. That kind of widespread buy-in is attractive and I'm not sure what is limiting Pl@ntNet:<p>- <a href="https://plantnet.org/en/plntnet-consortium/" rel="nofollow">https://plantnet.org/en/plntnet-consortium/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network" rel="nofollow">https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network</a><p>Personally I've found iNaturalist to be the optimum for me since it partners with 4 major Canadian organizations; it allows for local conservation authorities to have access to location data for vulnerable species observation. It's also every branch of the tree of life, not just plants, so it's allowed me to learn to identify more kinds of species.