Free-fruit enthusiasts have put together a Google Maps application to help them forage. Only has a few sites around Britain and Germany at the moment, but I bet it will grow.
Would it be so difficult to have something similar to report threats of genetic erosion, for example? I know Jacob thinks that would be useless, as a threat is only really a threat if it is likely to have an effect on overall genetic diversity, not just on what is available locally. But I’m not so sure. And it would be fun to do.
this reminds me of a project on the ground in Portland – Urban Edibles: A community database of wild food sources in Portland, OR http://urbanedibles.org/
Not useless, but in order to really “add up” all those local observations (and make it more useful) it would need ways to compare varieties with pictures, characteristics, uses, etc. It would be a great toy.