Traveling to Detroit to map some wildflowers

[Matthew Xi]

Hi all,

For anyone in the Detroit area, I'll be in town Monday - Friday next week doing a final round of 'seed' (initial) data gathering for our Wildflowers of Detroit project. I'm hoping to add several hundred photos and end our alpha phase with a well populated map. I also have some abstract yearnings to get a kite map of some of the more overgrown vacant lots - but I will need some help to pull that off since I've never done a kite (or balloon) map on my own. I do have a balloon kit, I do not yet have a kite. SO, if there is anyone on this list in Michigan interested in doing a grass roots map in Detroit, please get in touch and let's meet up! Of course I would like to add these as layers to the Wildflowers of Detroit map as we continue to build it out.

m.

[picniccl...@gmail.com]

Hey!
Id love to be involved with this project. Is this still happening?
Thanks
Bridget

[Matthew Xi]

> Yes, the project is still ongoing and should continue more or less forever. Practically, maintaining the software has been a slow process. There has been a new round of interest in the Rhus project in the last month, so it's time to do some fix-up around the house and check our versions against the ever too quickly moving front of the mobile software world. Make sure to subscribe to the list if you didn't already (rhus@googlegroups). The two ways to be involved are technical or with data gathering. If you have technical skills, let me know and we can talk more. If you are interested in wandering the land, let me know what kind of smartphone you have and I'll make sure you get a version of the app that works for your device. Another option would be to just take photos and annotate them yourself with date and GPS coordinates, and then send them along in a spreadsheet. Let me know what works for you and thanks for your interest in the wild in the city!
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> Matthew