One feature we’ve been wanting to add for a while is the ability to add photo markers. So we’ve been working on it for quite some time, and the end result is that you can link a photo of the plant to any sighting you choose to add to the database.
But better than that, the website will extract location and date information from the EXIF tags if they exist and position the marker accordingly. This is helpful because most modern camera phones can stamp GPS co-ordinates on each photo you take – Apple’s iPhone, and Nokia phones can do this just by changing a few settings.
So for the last couple of months we’ve been recording new plant sightings by just taking a picture of the plant using a Nokia N95 camera phone. So far we’ve found that the GPS co-ordinates are actually very accurate, and recording sightings this way is very quick. We look forward to the day when you can add photo markers to the map just using a standalone app on your iPhone while your are out there ‘in the field’….. but that might require a little bit of work yet……. 
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