This is an excellent find.
Much more fun than Pokemon Go!
A Map of the Trees of London
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#12If I zoom out I get "73 species in view" and if I zoom in I get "313 species in view" ? Anyway, it would be nice if there was a filter so you could select all trees of a given type. Or view all the public trees versus privately owned trees.
You can filter by tree type on the official map (which I think shows the same data): https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green...
Ok, but this only shows about 20 species.
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#13I've seen several of these maps (they are available for most large German cities) and i always ask myself what the value proposition and applications for such maps are. It seems like they take large resources (e.g. manual collection of the data) to create.
AFAIK in London the data are extracted from the archives of the local councils that planted the trees in the first place and were responsible for maintenance afterwards. I can imagine a best-case scenario is that they already have maps of the borough where they mark all the trees, and it's a matter of digitializing those maps and combining them.
It still takes time to combine all these data, presumably, but there were some useful studies on the ecologicical effects of different types of trees that came out of these data.
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#14There's a fair amount of trees listed on the map for my local area, but the main tree, that's locally famous[1] isn't listed, as it's technically on private property.
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#15I've seen several of these maps (they are available for most large German cities) and i always ask myself what the value proposition and applications for such maps are. It seems like they take large resources (e.g. manual collection of the data) to create.
I would think cities already have the data, as they have to do safety inspections on their trees, take them into account when doing street renovations, report on the ‘greenness’ of the city, etc.
Opening up the data isn’t that costly, and fits “Open Data” policies. Apps around this often are third party.
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#16I look to cities like London with awe and respect - that they have managed to keep so much old trees around. I get so frustrated at the local city and country level.
It takes minutes to fell down a tree that took centuries to grow. That there are any old trees around is a sign of persistently maintained high values.
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#17The Amsterdam city maintains maps of many things, including its trees: https://maps.amsterdam.nl/bomen/?LANG=en
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#18London has its own tree, the London plane. It's a hybrid of the American sycamore and the Oriental plane that supposedly grew when they were planted next to each other in Vauxhall Gardens in the 17th century.
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#19There's also this which might be based on the same data:
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green...
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#20There's also this which might be based on the same data: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green...
Looks like they use that as a data source, https://www.treetalk.co.uk/about amongst others.