A developer replaced the bounding box for Lorton with the KML I extracted from U.S. Census.

Now I've got a request in replace the bounding box for "Mark Center" with a KML I created from a map in an Alexandria City Plan map. I think the MC map will be a good draw for my coworkers and the Alexandria map will be a nice draw for the kids who come to science night. I'm not sure the developers have seen the KML I gave them or whether they have other things to do - or perhaps an unofficial KML is insufficient. We'll see. I'll wait a while and mention it again.

There's a woman at work who has expressed interest in doing a nature exhibit for science night - I may show the site (and the map) to her first to see if she has an interest in including this. Maybe should could incorporate this into her exhibit. OTOH, I could do a separate brochure - of recommended websites, say, and/or recommended apps and then give some pointers to iNature. I'll think about it.

I've made a decision that I'm not going to try to recover my old stuff. Maybe a few things - but mostly I'm going to start from scratch. As I type this I'm thinking of 4 or 5 older ones I would really like to keep. I'm a bit excited for spring to get here, but I'm strongly limiting myself to no more than 4 hours a week on this project of mine, unless it's combined with some other interest.

I deleted my formal project. I still have "my" project, of course - but I'm not implementing "my" project as an iNature project.

I need to understand better what the limitations are - both strict limitations and things that are discouraged. For example, it seems like cultivated plants / bred animals are not welcome, although the site clearly has a check box for indicating whether an observation falls into that category - so it appears its not strictly forbidden. OTOH, I think my intent to take pictures of shopping carts abandoned in the woods or trash accumulating in a flood plain are inappropriate for iNature, not for my bigger project - I just need to figure a way of documenting that stuff and linking. There are some things that are borderline - such as my discovery of and fascination with what I think was otter poop near my house. I was really excited for weeks - though my wife was annoyed about it. "You bought a camera to take pictures of that???" Anyway, I want to spend more time experimenting and reading through the site, so that I feel comfortable and even confident when spring comes round.

Posted on January 20, 2018 01:14 AM by elbillaf