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Finally an xkcd comic about OSM 👀

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/2107679…

xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

explainxkcd.com/2977/

#2977
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redd
redd
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And here is the chart to follow the progress:

taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags…

We should see a saturation arround 3 trillion trees. (1)

You can easily help achivieving this goal by reworking natural=tree_row and adding single natural=tree into natural=wood areas :) I know, some say this is discouraged, but we really need to map EVERY TREE!

(1): nature.com/articles/nature1496…

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Tyoda
Tyoda
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6.6% of trees have the species tag filled out! That's much more than I expected!
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redd
redd
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Unfortunately most of the species tagged trees are mass imported and not mapped by a real mapper.

I try often to map species or genus but there is no good mobile app for this task yet.

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Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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mapcomplete.org/trees is mobile friendly and supports the species tag. With plantnet, it even uses AI to automatically detect it!
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