[Talk-in] mapping trees

[Nagarjuna G]

On Sunday 14 Dec 2014 6:57:35 PM Arun Ganesh wrote:
> Hi GN, this is awesome, can you share more details on the project and how
> others can participate?
> 

yes.  give me a week, the website is getting ready.  We will be starting this 
project with a question to investigate.  The question is to know the serial 
killer of rain treen in Mumbai.  About 400 trees died in the last 3-4 years.  
So, initially we will be mapping all the rain trees in the city and its 
suburbs. We will have about a hundred volunteers and we expect to finish rain 
tree mapping by the end of January.  And the investigation will continue.  

> > >> 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?
> 
> We'll need to make a custom rendering style for this. Nobody seems to have
> looked into this yet.
> 

This is not a show stopper now, but eventually it will be good to have the 
information.  I will not focus on this issue at all.  This is just to say, 
what do we need in OSM. 

> > >> 2.  under the type of trees, we would like to add some more types.  is
> > 
> > this
> > 
> > >> possible?  how to go about doing this?
> 
> Looks like this list can be expanded in the iD editor code:
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/data/presets/fields/tree_typ
> e.json
> 
> You can see the list of commonly used tree tags at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree which could be
> helpful for the mappers.
> 

I looked at this.  We need to record some additional type of information.  
e.g. if there is any pest found on the tree.  name of the pest: This is 
important for us since the rain trees are dying because of a pest called meal 
worm.  The other thing is to note if the tree is situated at a cemented land 
or open land. 

If one of you can help getting this extra information, or tell us how to 
pursue this with OSM, that will be good.  Or else, if you guys can setup a 
separate server for this, that is always the best. 

btw, what happened to the idea of setting up of a osm.in?  

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GN