Tree Map Introduction from Kiran Goldman on Vimeo.
The Urban Forest Map initiative seeks to document every tree in San Fransisco to study the environmental impact of urban greenery. My favorite line is, “It’s like a census for trees.” What better way to incorporate trees into everyday life than to treat them like American citizens, I guess?
The whole project is very entertaining to me. Whereas one might expect this information to be kept in a private city database, it is actually presented in an interactive form on the site — Google Maps full of tree icons — so that San Fransisco’s citizens can document new trees, reference existing trees and access loads of information on the state of the city’s urban forest.
Now, where did I leave my Leptospermum laevigatum…