Re: When do I plant my tomatoes? Re: call to arms

On 18 Apr 2010, at 00:31, Karl Dubost wrote:

>
> Le 18 avr. 2010 à 03:47, Danny Ayers a écrit :
>> when do I plant my tomatoes? is much more in scope
>> we have the raw data I'm sure, perhaps even linked. but I still 
>> cannot
>> sit down and get an answer to such questions without a huge amount of
>> human heuristics. I expect better from the technology
>
> what about this
> http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&ss=2&mt=all&adv=1&w=all&q=tomato+garden+italy&m=text
>
> It's not exactly structured, but that would be possible to make it a 
> bit better. Social networks capture what people do in some areas of 
> the world.
>
> For example, I'm pretty sure it would be possible to track the 
> progress of cherry blossoms through the seasons depending on the 
> latitude in Japan.
> http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/News/sakura2009.html

related, I think.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/tree-survey/index.html

Roger

>
> Not many gardeners in the south of France ;)
> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+plantations+near%3A%22Nice%2C+France%22+within%3A100km
>
> twitter annotation feature could help in the future.
>
> The other solutions is to pimp above the fence of someone else :)
>
>
> --
> Karl Dubost
> Montréal, QC, Canada
> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
>
>





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