Nature Mapr

It was here that we had some problems.

The first problem was that our iPads wouldn't connect to our school Internet. Then we discovered we couldn't use USB ables to transfer the photos to the computer.

We figured out that we could hot spot to Mrs Stephens's phone to move the photos to Google Drive. This was a slow process, but it worked. We spent some time sorting the photos. We deleted photos that were blurry or in shadow. We created folders to sort all our pictures into types - plants, fungi and mosses, reptiles, birds, insects etc, because that's how Nature Mapr classifies species.

And then we discovered we had another problem!

We learned that photos taken on our iPads had no GPS data for privacy and safety reasons. While this is important for protecting us, it meant that we couldn't upload our pictures to Nature Mapr with the type of account we had. We would have to apply for special permission to have our account upgraded so that we could type in the location information ourselves. Mrs Stephens sent a request and we had to wait.

Although this process didn't work as well as we had hoped, we were still excited about Nature Mapr. We know that the way to have an impact is to get more people in our community using it on their phones. And we know that people's phones will have that important GPS data that Nature Mapr and the scientists need!