In Berlin there is "Gieß den Kiez"[1] (water your block). It not only shows you the species and age for every tree on public property, you can also adopt trees and be responsible for watering them.<p>> Gieß den Kiez is a participatory platform where you can inform yourself about the trees in your neighbourhood and their water needs. You can explore individual trees in Berlin and find out about the proper watering of trees. If you want to water the same trees regularly, you should create an account, adopt the trees and show that they are taken care of. This way, coordination takes place in the neighbourhood.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.giessdenkiez.de" rel="nofollow">https://www.giessdenkiez.de</a>
Related:<p><i>A Map of the Trees of London</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078682" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078682</a> - May 2020 (88 comments)<p>Edit: Related ongoing thread:<p><i>Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34888906" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34888906</a> - Feb 2023 (30 comments)
In New York City we also have an impressive Tree Map that not many know about: <a href="https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/" rel="nofollow">https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/</a>
> TreeTalk has been created on Greentalk's Platform. A proprietary technology platform which allows business/customers to promote or generate itineraries and trails based on geo-mapping and data ranging from trees to historic monuments, considering enviromental elements such as air quality, tree canopy, and more.<p><a href="https://www.greentalklabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.greentalklabs.com/</a>
This is the perfect app I'm looking for. Since moving to London, I fell in love with the trees here. Knowing nothing about trees before, I carry a tiny tree atlas with me. It is challenging to look up a tree from a booklet shall I say.<p>Simply beautiful.
Yay, a map of trees in London. Ok I'm being facecious but it'd be better if it was more widely covered. Surely we have lidar now that can delinieate different trees from the canopy data, using some ML or something...<p>I watched the 5th episode of LIDAR heroes from NASA today and they're talking about 1m+ points on the new devices, surely we could actually count how many trees using that data.. yea, might be a bit off, but it'd work in urban areas where mass density canopy calcs or whatever is impossible.<p>Lonesome trees need love too
Very interesting! It says the one right in front of my building is a Locust tree and is very rare in London:<p>> Rare species. This is one of TreeTalk's Bronze trees. There are no more than 200 of them in streets around London.
They have data for a tree in my garden. I got the tree cut down and there was so much bureaucracy to go through just to cut it, I guess it is a protected piece of nature or something of the sort?
Missing the Noel park friendship tree. I did my driving lessons around there and always wondered why is there a tree in the MIDDLE of a narrow residential street.