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Shade tree volunteers prepare BioBlitz data for city mapping, caution on data use
Summary
Commission member Eva told the Athens Shade Tree Commission the BioBlitz iNaturalist dataset is being cleaned and prepped for an ArcGIS web map, but noted iNaturalist observations are "for noncommercial use only" and participant consent will be needed before broader city use.
At the Athens Shade Tree Commission’s Feb. 18 meeting, Eva reported progress on last year’s BioBlitz, saying she has been cleaning the iNaturalist project page and working with another reviewer to ensure observations are accurate before they are added to a map. "I've been going through the iNaturalist project page that we had for the BioBlitz and cleaning things up, identifying things where people just uploaded photos," she said.
Eva said she has built a web…
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