OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world

2021-06-252:1613721github.com

Front end for opentrees.org, a data visualisation of millions of publicly maintained trees around the world. - stevage/OpenTrees

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A static website for browsing tree data collected from many municpal governments around the world, with the magic of vector tiles. (The scripts to download and process the data into vector tiles are here: https://github.com/stevage/opentrees-data)

Previous versions of the site:

version 1: raster tiles and Tilemill, displayed using Leaflet, in the /v1 directory on the v3 branch.
version 2: there is no version 2
version 3: Mapbox-GL-JS, JQuery, in the v3 branch
version 4: Mapbox-GL-JS, Vue.

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All code (so far) written by Steve Bennett (stevage@gmail.com, stevebennett.me, @stevage1)

All code released under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0)

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By freyfogle 2021-06-256:541 reply

Here's an interview with Steve Bennett, the creator of OpenTrees, from a little more than a year ago: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/opentrees

By breck 2021-06-2514:46

Nice find! Fun read.

By FreshFries 2021-06-2511:592 reply

Incredible... I am flabbergasted that 1: this data is collected and shared, 2: there is some good soul who figured out how to gather these sources and make it available to the world.

I would love an app that lets me walk my city, picture trees and expand the data set.

By breck 2021-06-2514:48

I highly recommend “picture this”. It’s AI tree identification is so good! It doesn’t let you link to open trees though, afaik. Maybe they would be willing to add that.

By stevage 2021-06-262:531 reply

Tell me more about how you imagine this app working?

(The "good soul")

By FreshFries 2021-07-017:57

Take a picture of a tree, have it identified & published with location in / on OpenTrees.

By Dylanfm 2021-06-2514:342 reply

Lovely project.

Something that jumped out to me as I browsed around Edinburgh is the app highlighting Japanese Knotweed as a "very rare" tree. It's actually a very invasive species that's almost impossible to get rid of.

By johnofthesea 2021-06-2515:331 reply

Maybe rare in database. As example Vigeland park in Oslo, there is tree row with similar trees but one has typo som is marked as rare.

By stevage 2021-06-262:54

Yep, the definition of "rare" is literally how many instances of that exact species name in the database. You can have extremely common trees marked as "rare" if they are rarely planted in urban contexts.

By pvaldes 2021-06-2516:22

Is not a tree and is a huge headache, yep. It depends on the location. What is normal for Europe can be a economical sink hole in US.

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