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Trees are nice, but holy cow...people with too much time and money on their hands making stuff up to justify whatever.
by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Trees are nice, but holy cow...people with too much time and money on their hands making stuff up to justify whatever.
- earlyriser 10y agoWhat are they making up to justify what?
- Raphmedia 10y agoMy guess: Got X budget this year. Used 1/2 of X budget for useful things. Requirement: Use all of X budget or receive only 1/2 of X budget next year. Solution: Use the budget to map all the trees.
- knz 10y agoMapping trees has many legitimate use cases (fighting invasive species that kill the trees, mapping potential hazards from falling trees or where you may need to respond most after a storm, managing trimming trees, estimating runoff and infiltration etc). Deriving additional value from that data is hardly a case of trying to waste money.
- garysieling 10y agoThey need to map them so someone can keep a spreadsheet of which ones have been pruned.
- fencepost 10y agoWhat's notable about this is not that they're mapping the trees - that was going to happen. What's notable about this is the openness, the volunteer effort, and possibly the quality of the data and relatively low cost due to that volunteer effort. This may also have started out seeded with data from aerial photography - possibly with pretty good data on tree types and rough sizes which could be gathered from color data particularly if they used several seasons of data. Mapping of trees was going to be done by whoever was responsible for maintaining them, on a smaller basis by anyone required to work around them (say for sidewalk work), and probably by multiple other organizations.