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Palms of Key West, documentation


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I've only posted on here once and had a fantastic experience with feedback from so many great people. Part due to that experience, also mostly because of friends here in Key West and the shared experience with my wife, we've been bitten by the palm bug. Living in Key West helps of course.

So I'm blending my tech knowledge with newly found love of palms and putting together a website to document the various rare palms in Key West (to include Stock Island and Key Heaven). I have several people here willing to contribute to the identification and documentation and I'm putting together the structure and function of the website. Visitors would be able to search by palm type and see where they exist in our area, or look via the map. Perhaps this eventually parlays into tours and other offerings. I'm very excited about this project and expect perhaps this framework could be used for other areas, but for now, I'm keeping the scope to the aforementioned islands.

With that, I'm looking to do some research before building the site to ensure I'm starting off with a good foundation of information and data. I'm not trying to duplicate palmpedia.net but will refer to the associated species for those identified and documented. Pictures (either current or historical) will provide context over time of growth over time. Most pictures will be taken from the public road and an associated street address to provide location. For property owners that want to provide a larger inventory of their specimens that may not be visible from the road, that opportunity will be provided, as well as contact options if the owner is amicable to it, for a private tour. 

I'd love to hear feedback from this community on the idea, the structure and specifics of data that should be captured and anything else you can come up with. For instance, where is the line between common (Coconut, Areca, Foxtail, Queen, Christmas, Alexander, etc) and rare? If you know of other sites that do something similar to this, please let me know!

On to the structure and data points....I'll also update these in this post as I receive feedback that I incorporate...

Each Palm (it's not expected that all data points will be collected, except in situations where the owner is contributing data):
Scientific name ________
Name verified ________
Added by (curator/contributor name)
Common name _______
Photos (time stamp of 1-when uploaded 2-when taken)
When planted ________
Size when planted _________
Street Address __________
GPS coordinates _________
Visibility __________ (this will have options like "street visible", "private tour", "etc")
Soil Type _________
Irrigation __________
Maintenance information _________
Challenges in care ___________
PlantAnt link to search inventory of suppliers
Request Review (means an expert is challenging some part of the data)
Visitor comments (with moderation)

Location (this represents the address of the palm, some locations will have more than 1 "rare" palm to document):
Address ________
Owner (if provided) ___________

Curator/Contributor (this is the person that's been enabled in the site to add the palm data)
First Name ________
Location ________

Thanks in advance for those that want to add feedback and suggestions for this project!

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🤷🏼‍♂️

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Example of some amazing specimens around here 

 

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Great. Plenty of cool plants around here to document. 

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