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 LAYAR app for the Iphone 3GS, T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones. We are considering 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.

Some screenshots of the first demo.

say Wietske has a new recipe for nettles; how do we add them to all different nettles on the map? I propose 1 link is added to all nettles from the start. And this leads to a page where you can add any recipes afterwards.

a part of project groworld and category gardens