[Taxacom] iPhone floristics

[Stinger]

There have been a large number of people at least think about plant visual 
key projects for the iPhone.  At PLANTS we get approximately one inquiry 
every other week by someone who wants to do an iPhone app using the images 
on the PLANTS site. I rarely see full versions completed and released 
though. There was a thread here a few months back on image recognition and 
ID tools that had some links. 

Stinger Guala
Acting Director
USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center
(PLANTS.USDA.GOV)

>>From: Paul Hargraves
>Subject: [Taxacom] iPhone  floristics
>To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu, Paul Hargraves
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>joann_burkholder at ncsu.edu
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>Listers et al.,
>Never having been successful at insisting that phytoplankton students 
>identify their unknowns by measurements and descriptions, rather than 
>just matching up published pictures,  I note this recent app to take 
>things one step further:
> *New iPhone App Assists Identification of Harmful Algal Species*...

>Is this sort of thing common in other areas?

PEH