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| ====Forage Mark-Up Language==== | ====Forage Mark-Up Language==== |
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| With all these edible city/urban forage projects mushrooming all over the place, as the latest fad for artists, environmentalists and culinary types, I notice a certain perpeptual reinvention of the wheel. All that data on where to find edible foodstuffs is locked-up in different formats usable only for that specific project. A little active consideration on how to make this data sharable would do us all good. Perhaps, instead of kickstarting the same thing thousand times for a thousand little projects the edible city community could bootstrap itself into a worldwide network able to create data beyond today and beyond the local. | There are so many edible city/urban forage projects mushrooming all over the place, as the latest fad for artists, environmentalists and culinary types, I notice a certain perpetual reinvention of the wheel. All that data on where to find edible foodstuffs is locked-up in different formats usable only for that specific project. There is no technical reason why local data collected in Utrecht ([[http://plukdestad.nl/]]) or Amsterdam ([[http://urbanedibles.blogspot.com/]]) can't be dropped on worldwide maps ([[http://www.foodspotting.com/]] and [[http://forage.rs/]]) or why old/dead projects can be imported as an initial dataset for a new project. It makes sense for local communities to maintain their own applications limited to a few streets or a neighbourhood. In fact territories as large as Utrecht (a medium sized city) already seems much too big to faithfully map. Foraging takes time, knowledge and heightened awareness, it can't be done haphazardly. It makes sense to harvest local data and connect it with other data. A little active consideration on how to make this data shareable would do us all good. Perhaps, instead of kickstarting the same thing thousand times for a thousand little projects the edible city community could organize itself modularly. |
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| What we need is a uniform way of storing data that could be easily translated to other formats (KML/google map applications especially). I hear people talk about recording where what species can be found, adding to this layers of information like the most likely time to harvest, what parts can be used and what parts not, recipes, medical uses, but also known problems with pollution and/or ownership in a given erea. Some of these things should be included, some of these things belong elsewhere. | What we need is a uniform way of storing data that could be easily translated to other formats (KML/google map applications especially). I hear people talk about recording where what species can be found, adding to this layers of information like the most likely time to harvest, what parts can be used and what parts not, recipes, medical uses, but also known problems with pollution and/or ownership in a given erea. Some of these things should be included, some of these things belong elsewhere. |
| The plant tag collects names for the plant, the latin is the botanical name, the others are 'normal' names. The location tag is lifted straight from KML. The use-tag collects properties about the plant/tree being tagged that might be useful for parsing. Some other relevant information like date of last observation ends it. | The plant tag collects names for the plant, the latin is the botanical name, the others are 'normal' names. The location tag is lifted straight from KML. The use-tag collects properties about the plant/tree being tagged that might be useful for parsing. Some other relevant information like date of last observation ends it. |
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| Just raving; there surely must be better ways to do it. IF AT ALL. | Just raving; there surely must be better ways to do it. IF AT LL: should newcomers/outsiders be allowed to plunder the limited resources of a local community? Or publicize the existence of such resources? |
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