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

[Suyash Dwivedi]

Hey Milind
Its a great useful data :)
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:49 PM Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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