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 an Ushahidi based app for Android phones.

• First test version available here: Boskoi and here
• development hosted at http://code.google.com/p/boskoiandroid/

We have chosen 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)
• Verifying plant status.
• Open to mail, sms, twitter.
• Offering alerts to new additions in your area.

Possible extras:

• Offering harvesting alerts.
• Join local foragers and events.
• Providing a route to a recipe.
• supporting standard format see: foragemarkuplanguage

In future we aim at Boskoi versions for several platforms.

• http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/25/augmented-foraging
• http://www.mobilebehavior.com/2010/08/25/mobile-crowdsourcing-boskoi-informs-foragers-about-wild-food-sources/
• http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/08/augmented-reality-augmented-foraging/

• “Urban foraging: 'It's day two and I'm going to die'. Is it possible to feed yourself for a week simply with food you find growing wild” http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/06/foraging-in-london

• http://forage.rs
• NOAH: http://www.networkedorganisms.com/
• http://m.waarneming.nl/index.php
• http://www.foodspotting.com/
• http://wildplukwijzer.nl/?page_id=2
• http://www.mundraub.org/
• pollution maps > http://www.appcraver.com/pollution/
• Dutch butterfly guide > http://vlindergids.natuurlijkwild.nl/
• more green apps

a part of project groworld and category gardens

http://fo.am/groworld/ IforAE