[Talk-in] mapping trees

[Johnson Chetty]

On 13 Dec 2014 00:32, "I Chengappa" <imchengappa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi GN
>
> Tree species or other detailed data are somewhat a niche bit of
information for what started off as road mapping software. Hence the
standard renderer does not show it, as it also does not show a lot of the
other info added, for instance population of towns, et.c. A specialised
renderer would need to be created to display such data. Maybe this can be
done using a stylesheet with some of the existing render software.
>
> For editing purposes, as you can see at
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles there is a stylesheet for JOSM
that will display the spread of the tree, and I imagine it can also be
modified to show the name, species or other information. (It might be of
interest to read this contribution by the writer of that stylesheet -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AndrewBuck/diary/17551)
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by type? There is no tag shown under this name
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree . Trees would
ideally be shown by their botanic name (genus and species, or taxon), at
least the genus part of it. And these should be botanically correct, e.g.
genus=Cocos. If it is not known, then the 'name' tag could be used with a
common name, e.g. name=coconut.
>
> On 12 December 2014 at 17:02, Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> We are beginning a project starting 6th of Jan to map trees in Mumbai,
and
>> later we will spread this to other areas in the country as well.  Some
>> questions regarding the preparedness of OSM for this purpose.
>>
>> 1.  when we add a tree, we also add its name etc.  however, this
information
>> does not appear. The tree dot is visible but does not have any info.
One has
>> to go to edit interface to check the information added. How to go about
this?
>>
>> 2.  under the type of trees, we would like to add some more types.  is
this
>> possible?  how to go about doing this?
>>
>> any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> GN
>>
>>

There is OpenTreeMap (OTM) which is an app that does the same. . I think
the data can be ported back to osm. I had set up an OTM instance a while
back.  I did not check the  import to OSM though.

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