[Talk-in] Small Import of tree tags in Botanical Garden, Mumbai, India

[Arun Ganesh]

Since mapping all 4000+ trees may not be a good idea since there are a huge
> number (around 3000) of commonly found trees such as banyan, mango, coconut
> etc. in the list. Those common trees will make the map overpopulated (as
> per my opinion).

I have removed those common trees to get another list of about 1000 rare
> trees. Further removing duplicates I have finalised a clean list of
> distinct 200+ rare trees that will be of interest to all. The accuracy of
> the location seems to be satisfactory. (I checked a few coordinates by
> actually visiting the place and adding a few tags).


To me it seems fine to import it all if the data is good. Its much more
convenient for those interested in the dataset to have it available in one
place with all the corrections.

It's another question if the data is accurate enough. My experience with
tree mapping is that its quite hard to get precise location while on the
ground due to the tree itself messing with the GPS accuracy. So its
probably wise to split it into two phases where the rare trees are done
first as a smaller sample.

We've had a couple of mapping parties in Bengaluru mapping trees, happy to
assist if you hit issues. Documenting the process for the future as a blog
post on https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary would be very valuable. There
has always been citizen activists interested in mapping trees and this can
be a great resource.
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