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 === Augmented Foraging ===
-A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources. Created in first instance for Amsterdam Urban Edibles as an app for the Iphone 3GS, T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones.
+**Combining the ancient skills of foragers with the newest mobile media.**\\
+A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources. Created in first instance for Amsterdam [[urban_edibles]] as a [[http://layar.com/|LAYAR]] app for the Iphone 3GS, T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones.
+We are considering [[grazing_hermits|Boskoi]] as a name for the mobile app because it translates as 'grazer' or 'browser' from the Greek 'βοσκοί'.\\
+Functionalities (being implemented):
+  * Showing edible or useful wildfood sources in your area.
+  * Displaying direction and distance to plant.
+  * Providing info on edible parts of the plant.
+  * Enabling anyone (with gps on mobile) to upload new entries to the database.
+  * Providing links to expert knowledge (botanical, herbal, culinary, ecological)
+  * Report 'bad link'; if plant/source is no longer there.
+Possible extras:
+  * Offering harvesting alerts.
+  * Report waste dumping (separate waste-map?)
+  * Mushroom determination.
+  * Join local foragers.
+  * Apply to become an editor.
+  * Add protected or endangered species without revealing exact location.
+  * Adopt a stressed wild plant (using companion planting?)
+  * Join local adoption group (game with points awarded?)
+Some [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157623023703044/|screenshots]] of the first demo.
+**We hope this pilot can perhaps sprout other ecosytem-apps.**
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+=== App. architecture: ===
+== content: ==
+  * Are new entries checked by an editor?
+  * Are new entries first on a preliminary map?
+  * Can we simply copy-paste content? For instance: is there a standard dataset for hazelnuts that does not have to be updated later? So if a new recipe is found for hazelnuts, we don't have to add it to all entries individually? > A standard link should probably go to a page of recipes. And on this page you can add recipes at any time.
+  * Can bio-students do plant-determination as editors?
+  * If the user identifies the plant and names the new entry, can the dataset for that plant be added automatically?
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+a part of [[project groworld]] and [[category gardens]]