[OSM-talk] Too much detail, or: mapping every single tree in a park

Ewen Hill ewen.hill at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 11:58:49 UTC 2021


Hi Skyler,
  I see OSM being a perfect vehicle for this level of mapping and it would
be even better to have the age of the tree, species, height etc. It tells a
user that this park has lots of cover and that may be important to someone
wanting relief from the heat.

In Sydney, Australia, some suburbs are looking at urban heat islands that
may reach 50 degrees (122F) on a regular basis and a lot more people are
going to see that tree canopies are vitally important. The state government
that covers Sydney is planning to plant one million trees in Greater Sydney
by next year.

A number of councils are providing access and waivers for their tree
databases and Melbourne allows you to email individual trees! -
http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/bigmap.html

OSGEO Oceania/FOSS4G will be planting 250 trees in July this year as part
of the Wellington conference carbon mitigation  which we hope to add to OSM
via a surveying team.

Trees are vitally important in our urban environments, let's do them
justice.

Ewen

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 13:07, Skyler Hawthorne <osm at dead10ck.com> wrote:

> I came across this:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/42.71889/-73.78869
>
> And can't help but think that this serves no utility to anyone whatsoever,
> and just takes up space and slows down map editors.
>
> I hesitate to destroy the effort of someone who clearly spent a
> significant amount of time meticulously mapping each tree, but... at the
> same, does it really help anyone to know where each individual tree is in a
> park?
>
> Maybe I'm too pessimistic. What does everyone else think? Is there such a
> thing as too much detail? Where do we draw the line?
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Warm Regards

Ewen Hill
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