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Prior to CampusFlora, a digital map of the campus flora was not available to the students/staff/broader community. Our CampusFlora Apps map the plants as well as the location of the user so he/she can easily find the plants that they are... more
Prior to CampusFlora, a digital map of the campus flora was not available to the students/staff/broader community. Our CampusFlora Apps map the plants as well as the location of the user so he/she can easily find the plants that they are interested in examining closeup and very few botanical maps locate the user in the map. The App system offers a user-friendly way to manage location and botanical information as a structured database that presents to front-end users as a Web App and an iPhone app.
Our CampusFlora system offers the ability to create trails so users can interact with the vegetation according to ‘themes’; the unique aspect is the interactivity of the map, the selection of groups of plants (families, trails). We have developed processes to update the information in the database (that is downloaded with the App); the system software has been designed to be shared so others can deploy their own Flora Apps.
The CampusFlora software is available under OpenSource (GPLv3) licence so other institutions and organisations including schools, golf courses, local authorities etc can render their own App to share their flora.
Our software has allowed us to offer a CampusFlora at the University of Sydney as:
1. iPhone app (Quinnell, Pye, Pettit, Cheung, Wang; iOS v1.3 was updated by Sinha, S. Cheung C, Pettit L and Quinnell R);
2. webApp (Barker, N), and,
3. Android App: developed by Computer Science students (Faculty of Engineering) as their 'capstone project': Ling, A., Shadid, A., Johnston, M., Huang, X., Woo, YB., Dong, XJ. and Ahn, S-Y (supervisor Quinnell R.).
Our CampusFlora system offers the ability to create trails so users can interact with the vegetation according to ‘themes’; the unique aspect is the interactivity of the map, the selection of groups of plants (families, trails). We have developed processes to update the information in the database (that is downloaded with the App); the system software has been designed to be shared so others can deploy their own Flora Apps.
The CampusFlora software is available under OpenSource (GPLv3) licence so other institutions and organisations including schools, golf courses, local authorities etc can render their own App to share their flora.
Our software has allowed us to offer a CampusFlora at the University of Sydney as:
1. iPhone app (Quinnell, Pye, Pettit, Cheung, Wang; iOS v1.3 was updated by Sinha, S. Cheung C, Pettit L and Quinnell R);
2. webApp (Barker, N), and,
3. Android App: developed by Computer Science students (Faculty of Engineering) as their 'capstone project': Ling, A., Shadid, A., Johnston, M., Huang, X., Woo, YB., Dong, XJ. and Ahn, S-Y (supervisor Quinnell R.).