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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
One thing I've recently come to realize is that there are situations where Google and Wikipedia are utterly useless.
For instance, situations like this, where you have a picture of a place and wants to know what place it is.
And the similar one I'm in a lot at the moment, where I have a plant and want to know which it is and whether I should be bringing out the flamethrower or the fertilizer.
There's a bazillion pictures and descriptions of plants out there, but no key.
Or when you don't know the words, so can't come up with the right search terms.
Actually I've been thinking a bit if those two problems could be combined, to make a site where eg. a series of plant morphologies where shown as pictures for the user to select between, and the site built a search based on the technical terms for those, then used Google to look for a match and presented that as a possible answer. |
I know what you mean about identifying pictures, I've tried finding plane pictures and all you can do is wade through lots of images until you find one that matches.
re your plant finder, this one will identify British trees/shrubs which are similar to Danish ones;
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/trees/index.htm (61kb) "A key for identifying British trees and shrubs"
I agree about needing to know the right words, I'm fairly savvy about astronomy and the English language but a friend of mine recently didn't know that the moon is visible during the dayime, and didn't believe me when I said it was. i told them to look on the interweb but they didn't know any terms to search. Thats why this site is so useful.