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0 pointsefromvt2mo ago0 comments

Oh that's great! I was finding fun tree collections and wanted to go see them - unfortunately not in SF so not likely - but your app has some nice data around me that I can check out! Are you primarily using OSM data?

I was thinking of a google maps kind of "here you are, here's your walking path of interesting trees" potentially, or something else that could tie the overview to the street experience - on the backlog!

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wisemang2mo ago

So the tree data itself mainly comes from municipal open data, just like yours does. Street Trees datasets are pretty common across cities. I just added SF yesterday after replying here :)

Otherwise the map tiles are coming from OpenFreeMap [1] which are indeed based on OSM.

Next steps I'm interested in are including economic + ecological benefits of the trees, highlighting potential pests / invasive species, maybe some other basic info about the species sourced from Wikipedia.

I like how you've got different icons for different types of trees; I've been thinking about how to encode DBH data as well but haven't settled on anything yet.

[1] https://openfreemap.org

efromvtOP1mo ago

Yeah I have a 'species' info table that's built by curating wikipedia and a few other sources and passing them through a structured LLM pipeline; ecological benefit; blooming season; native regions, etc. This is very much a 'rough cut' at the moment; I want to put more quality gates and evals in it. If you're interested in collaborating all the raw parquet datasets I have are in a public GCS bucket - happy to have them pulled in anywhere else!

DBH I'm doing for the "size" right now, though I'd love to figure out how to get canopy shape/size as well, and height where possible. (and then maybe proxy height a species level from DBH, since that's more common).

(apologies for belated response)

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