Finally an xkcd comic about OSM 👀
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.'
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!
12Reply6.6% of trees have the species tag filled out! That's much more than I expected!
3ReplyUnfortunately 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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This is literally me.
8ReplyThe person to the right?
2ReplyA major portion of my professional career has been occupied by the task of "get me a map of every tree"
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I feel like https://xkcd.com/2102/ is sort-of about OSM too.
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