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RE: Foragers - Make a map of your foraging spots with Google - The step by step of how to create your map.
Thanks for sharing. Just as food for thought, it's also becoming possible to share foraging spots with other foragers via shared maps, see some examples below:
Interesting links. I have a strong desire to always have a paper map available, but these sites are cool as they give me an idea of what's around. The fallingfruit site is crazy with all the identified trees they show in the cities.
It's an interesting concept the whole thing about publicly mapping wild edibles, because if it's not accompanied by a shared strong ethos and set of responsible harvesting principles then publicising information about the location of them on a public platform might also be seen as a potential threat to the survival of those populations. As in the original post, a map for private use has a strong application for the individual forager to keep track of their foraging spots, perhaps start to monitor and plan their harvesting. But releasing that into public domain might mean one irresponsible individual might go and collect them all, or perhaps a steady flow of foragers will diminish a certain population. Foragers are notoriously secretive about their foraging spots so it's interesting to know what are the opinions of foragers about such free-for-all sharing of plant location information. I'm not sure I've even quite made up my own mind about it!
Thanks for adding that information!
No worries. I absolutely LOVE maps. I love that you can map pretty much anything :)