"Serious" Data Collection with inaturalist

i know! soooo muuuch daaata! And it was a super laid back and fun day. It would also be fun in a group of maybe two or three, too many more and you'd want to split into teams. I think iNaturalist may someday create a feature like ebird where if you are in a team of two or three you can tag the others and share the observations for that trip

Oh totally.
And... just to be clear... by 'serious' i just mean intensive and focused. By all means any general naturalist including well informed amateurs can do this. It just isn't what most people do with iNat. (apparently I am by far the heaviest app user with even more app uploaded observations than Ken-ichi who created it. Which blows my mind because the app is so easy, but i also have no other camera).
I really like the idea of rapid assessments and natural community mapping with fully public data when appropriate. Obviously this doesn't apply to some situations such as rare plants, and also many cases on private land (though obscuring can allay some of that). But why not have government groups and land trusts and such share biodiversity data? It's great outreach.

In the absence of a "Like" button, thanks for posting.

Yeah, it's a neat idea to strategically plop points on (publically accessible) interesting areas and sending people out to see what they find. Or even combining iNat with something like this (with a healthy dose of respecting trespassing laws). Or a system that analyzes the 'nearest neighbor' to let you search for outliers and stuff. A while back Scott was looking at a system to re-verify old species records via a standalone app, not sure if it is still active in that form.
So many ideas. So many problems.

Yep that's it! I never got into it because I could never resist adding all the other things in addition to the target species.

Oh I think I've heard of that. Does it take photos and such too? I wish there were an easier way to see stuff like that, since there's no way to click through to those on the map. I use the species maps on here a LOT.

I love the calflora data, wish Vermont had something that comprehensive (the best we have is now iNaturalist for plants/moths and Ebird for birds) However I wish there were more photos on calflora that were easy to get to especially with weird range extenders and stuff. Calflora does send to GBIF right?

So iNaturalist shares to Calflora and GBIF but Cal Flora only sometimes shares with GBIF. So confusing.