OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml randomaccount43543 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Finally an xkcd comic about OSM 👀

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21076796

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.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

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And here is the chart to follow the progress:

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=tree#chronology

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): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14967
- 6.6% of trees have the species tag filled out! That's much more than I expected!
  
  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.
This is literally me.
- The person to the right?
  
  A major portion of my professional career has been occupied by the task of "get me a map of every tree"
I feel like https://xkcd.com/2102/ is sort-of about OSM too.

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