Chopping Downwardly The London Tree Map

This calendar week Cartonerd has taken his sharpened axe to the London Tree Map. This novel interactive map from the Greater London Authority shows the place in addition to genus of 700,000 London trees.

London has over eight 1000000 trees, hence the London Tree Map is clearly non an exhaustive map of all of London's trees. This is 1 of Cartonerd's primary complaints amongst the map. In Can't See the Woods for the Trees he argues that past times mapping less than x per centum of London's trees the map is plainly a simulated representation of London's trees.

This criticism is plainly true. However the introduction to the map clearly states that the map is non an exhaustive survey of London's trees. So this criticism is besides a picayune harsh, However approximately other of Cartonerd's criticisms of the map, namely the 'lack of naming conventions for recording species' inwards the data, highlights a actually serious work amongst the character of the data.

Before reading Cartonerd's criticisms of the map I had happily been using the map to lay the species of trees inwards my street. I besides used the map to uncovering out the locations of a release of edible fruit in addition to chestnut trees that I didn't know virtually inwards my neighborhood.

Cartonerd clearly feels that the London Tree Map 'lies' in addition to shouldn't conduct maintain been released until the errors in addition to inconsistencies inwards the information are addressed. If you lot alive inwards London I mean value that you lot nonetheless powerfulness move interested inwards using the map to assistance lay the trees inwards your street in addition to neighborhood. However it is plainly worth bearing inwards hear the inconsistencies inwards the information identified past times Cartonerd in addition to remaining aware that this map shouldn't move read uncritically.