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Most (or all?) of iNaturalist's code is open source (typically MIT), see https://github.com/inaturalist

A lot of iNaturalist data is open data, see https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist-open-data

(It's up to each user to decide how they want to license their observations, photos, and sounds. The options are all-rights-reserved [no license], CC0, CC-BY, and various other CC license.)

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You can also get all research-grade observation data from a DarwinCore archive[1] that's updated monthly and exported to GBIF[2]. They also have a pretty good API[3], and if you happen to want to use that in a python application or script, I maintain a client library[4] for it.

[1]: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers

[2]: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...

[3]: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/

[4]: https://github.com/pyinat/pyinaturalist

In case anyone else is wondering why it's not on Fdroid: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/654

(tldr: uses Google Maps and analytics)

You can download it from their github apparently.

I just limp along with aurora, though.

I wonder if the IzzyOnDroid repository [1] (for F-Droid) will accept them. Their inclusion policy is "slightly less strict than F-Droid’s" in their words, but reading it [2] doesn't immediately clarify to me if this one would be allowed or not.

[1] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/info [2] https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/#what-are-the-requiremen...

Do you know if this includes the model this commenter was talking about? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37516652

Feels like that'd be useful for all sorts of stuff.

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