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A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia
- John_KZ 8y agoAt first it's funny then it's kind of unsettling. Not even trees can hide from the all-seeing eye. Just go spot fruit trees on your own.
- simion314 8y ago>Just go spot fruit trees on your own. How would you know if you are allowed to pick the fruits? Not all private properties are fenced, so if you take your bugs and go hunting for fruits you could get face to face with the angry owner, his dog and who knows in some countries his gun.
- hinkley 8y agoWhat pisses people off the most is when people damage the tree trying to get the fruit. Losing one crop is frustrating but now some jerk has compromised the tree for years or maybe forever. There’s a group here that gets the owners’ permission. Some of those trees were planted by the previous owner or someone whose health or free time doesn’t let them pick like they used to. This group gleans the tree, and then the fruit is split evenly between the owner, the pickers, and a food bank. The owner gets a little less fruit but does something good and has less rotting fruit to clean up that year.
- severine 8y agoYou just made me recall one of my favourite movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners_and_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners_and_I
- always_good 8y agoThe fruit trees would love it. Wide seed dispersal? People coming from nearby regions to eat? I produce a different kind of seed but I'd still sign up. But fwiw I've learned that if you ever find yourself saying "Just <do something>, [it's that easy!]" then you're likely making a silly comment regardless of subject.
- jodrellblank 8y ago"People with the 'oh, you just...' mentality never understand why it takes a long time to do things." - http://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord http://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord
- yorwba 8y agohttps://mundraub.org/ https://mundraub.org/ is similar, but for Germany.
- Roritharr 8y agoThis is great, when you don't have family with a garden, it's hard to take your kids somewhere to pick fruit straight from the tree.
- Markoff 8y agoexcept most of these trees grow usually next to frequented roads and I would pass on fruit exposed 24/7 to gases from cars
- PeterisP 8y agoIs that still a concern? It used to be a major health issue when I was a kid because of tetraethyl lead pollution, but now that leaded fuels have been banned long ago, the car emissions should be harmful only to breathing and climate change, without any poisonous residue on roadside plants.
- Siemer 8y agoDutch version: http://wildplukwijzer.nl http://wildplukwijzer.nl
- flicken 8y agoSome coverage of Austria as well.
- Freak_NL 8y agoIt's a shame that neither this site nor mundraub.org mentioned by yorwba utilizes the OpenStreetMap database. It shouldn't be too hard to find or introduce the proper tags; trees already support genus/species etc. It would expose this data to a larger community, and encourage contributions from local mappers. I would try to get rid of the 'Use ctrl+scroll to zoom the map' limitation; it's annoying and pointless on a full scale map.
- rmc 8y ago> It shouldn't be too hard to find or introduce the proper tags There's lot of people mapping such details in OSM already: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
- Stephen304 8y agoI have actually been doing some of this in my area for crabapple trees. Not necessarily to eat them, but I find it useful to clean up the sidewalk and dump the fallen crabapples in my compost. IMO it just needs a viewer that focuses on plants that bear fruit, and potentially a tag to designate public access (maybe just reuse access:public).
- jasonparallel 8y agoGlobal focus https://fallingfruit.org/ https://fallingfruit.org/
- mrtimo 8y agoThis is incredible. Works in my city in Washington state very well! Does not have raspberries or other berries, however.
- maxerickson 8y agoThe resources listed nearest me are mostly dumpsters.
- hinkley 8y agoThere’s a large demographic overlap here with the freegans. Might not be amusing to have dumpsters all over your list but if you’re in a concrete jungle it might not be so surprising.
- maxerickson 8y agoThat's in a medium-small town, the next one over. There's only 2 entries that aren't dumpsters (and those are herbs).
- unicornporn 8y agoSweden: http://fruktkartan.se/ http://fruktkartan.se/ Fruit on public land.
- Markoff 8y agoCzech version https://na-ovoce.cz/map/ https://na-ovoce.cz/map/
- lukeqsee 8y agoSomewhat offtopic, but (almost) all of these websites use Google Maps. This means they probably are going to get large bills with this extra HN traffic flood. :( Since these are non-commerical tools, my company (in my bio) would be happy to provide free maps for these websites—as would many other OpenStreetMap-based providers.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThis is very kind of you! Thank you for supporting an open web!
- lukeqsee 8y agoOur company wouldn't be possible without the many, many others that built the dataset and keep it fresh. We owe them all a debt of gratitude. The least we can do is help them find a little fresh fruit. ;)
- solipsism 8y agoLet's not pretend that this is from the bottom of their hearts. This is a business strategy to increase penetration. Nothing wrong with it except the duplicitousness.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agosymbiosis is not duplicitous.
- solipsism 8y agoWe would all be irritated if Facebook or Google tried to pretend giving its products away was any kind of charity.
- anoncoward111 8y agoAnyone who wants to load in a list of coordinates manually into a maps website is more than welcome to do so. That's what I did.
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- robotron 8y agoAnd I just left Slovakia....
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- durkie 8y agoi run a fruit tree map for atlanta too: https://www.concrete-jungle.org/food-map https://www.concrete-jungle.org/food-map
- vram22 8y agoApropos, I like the stories of Johnny Appleseed and Luther Burbank, both of which I read as a teenager, when I used to both do and read about organic gardening and related topics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
- nisse72 8y agoNew Zealand: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1HDtmvU4XemdY0bDLDfNdSEUnjb0&hl=en&ll=-36.861027756917345%2C174.73274743200238&z=16 https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1HDtmvU4XemdY0bDLDf...
- flicken 8y agoAustrian version: http://fruitmap.at/ http://fruitmap.at/
- brtknr 8y agoI don’t understand why Slovakia has so many fruit trees compared to other countries!
- kardos 8y agoHow long until someone hatches a plan to harvest all the fruit and sell it at a supermarket?
- dlahoda 8y agoharder to use. by inaturalist may hold some data either.