Spotting

Hi negutron, no need to leave! Project Noah is a site to share wildlife photos from all over the world. Many of those are uploaded and unidentified, and this site is great for getting things identified! Scott is just simply saying it's a lot easier to ID a plant if you have a picture of all of it, I'm sure you can understand this considering how many hundreds of thousands of plants are out there! If this was spotted in your garden, it should be easy for you to go take a picture of the whole plant to add to this spotting, and having a close up of the leaf is very helpful too!

Well we're volunteers servicing over 500,000 spottings and 1,000,000 photos. I did not intend to be snarky, just working flat out is all. I apologise for my response -- no need to call the entire community "snarky".

It was spotted in my garden of my new place. Sorry about not using this software / service correctly, I've used it for exactly 5 minutes so I don't know what I'm doing yet or why it's useful whatsoever. It seems like it's facebook for taking pictures in nature, whereas from what I read of Project Noah, it was an alternative to LeafSnap. I think this is wholly incorrect. I had been looking for a leaf identification software and I think i stumbled upon a snarky unhelpful community. Sorry I'll leave quickly and quietly!

As a wildlife spotting and sharing community it would be great if you could capture the entire plants in their habitats. This provides more information for others who may want to see, or who happen to spot, these species. While it is possible to identify some plants by a leaf, it is not possible for all plants and there isn't visual information on how the plant looks growing naturally. This is from the Project Noah Frequently Asked Questions: "Again, as our main purpose is reconnecting people to and documenting wildlife, we prefer that spottings for all organisms be taken in their natural environment wherever possible." AND "Please state the actual habitat where you photographed the spotting - this information can then be used to track changes in habitat, such as those caused by human intervention or habitat destruction." as regards the latter statement it is obviously helpful to have this habitat in one of the photographs. Thank you