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 viii i G one thousand trees, hence the London Tree Map is clearly non an exhaustive map of all of London's trees. This is i of Cartonerd's principal complaints alongside the map. In Can't See the Woods for the Trees he argues that past times mapping less than 10 portion of London's trees the map is apparently a faux representation of London's trees.
This criticism is apparently 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 every bit good a picayune harsh, However roughly 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 alongside the character of the data.
Before reading Cartonerd's criticisms of the map I had happily been using the map to seat the species of trees inwards my street. I every bit good used the map to notice out the locations of a divulge of edible fruit in addition to chestnut trees that I didn't know most inwards my neighborhood.
Cartonerd clearly feels that the London Tree Map 'lies' in addition to shouldn't get got 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 all the same powerfulness hold out interested inwards using the map to attention seat the trees inwards your street in addition to neighborhood. However it is apparently worth bearing inwards heed the inconsistencies inwards the information identified past times Cartonerd in addition to remaining aware that this map shouldn't hold out read uncritically.
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