Are you looking for a map of the birth of mushrooms in Italy to understand if it's time. It makes sense: knowing where the waste came from saves you having to waste your time. But the useful map is not the one that shows people's places.
A real-time mushroom birth map can work in two opposite ways. With the dots on the places of individuals, or with the aggregate conditions of each area. Only the second is reliable and respectful.
The map that counts doesn't say the places. It says the conditions.
In short
- Public dot maps expose mushroom farms: unreliable and unwelcome to prospectors.
- The useful monitoring is by area, in real time, on conditions.
- It updates from anonymous data in the area, not from individuals' secret places.
The problem of dot maps
A map marking the exact finds has two fates. Or it is empty, because no serious searcher posts its place. Or burn the mushroom farm of those who have trusted.
- Nobody marks the good place: the real dots are not there.
- When I'm there, you expose someone's work.
- A dot from yesterday doesn't tell you the conditions today.
What does monitoring “in real time” mean?
Monitoring in real time does not mean seeing other people's mushrooms. It means reading the conditions of an area that are updated as new data arrives, not a bulletin stuck on Monday.
Area data, not place
The useful signal is if your area is in the nascent stage. You get it by aggregating data within a 50 km radius, anonymously, without any precise point being revealed.
How you do it with MushScout
For your area you see a score for today and for the next six days, especially by species. It rises when conditions improve. It's real-time monitoring, but private: the seat map remains yours alone.
Area conditionsToday is 6 days
Aggregate dataRadius 50 kmBecause I've never liked dot maps
I have always looked at maps with dots with suspicion: either they are fake, or someone has put their place there.
What I want to know is something else: has it started in my area or not? That's enough for me, and it doesn't touch anyone's mushroom farm.
— Federico, Mush Scout
Monitor your area, not other people's places
MushScout anonymously aggregates data within a 50km radius and gives you an up-to-date picture of your area. The coordinates of the finds never end up on a public map.
The more searchers participating in your area, the more accurate local tracking becomes, for everyone. Download it on Google Play.