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 1000000 trees, hence the London Tree Map is clearly non an exhaustive map of all of London's trees. This is i of Cartonerd's top dog complaints amongst the map. In Can't See the Woods for the Trees he argues that yesteryear mapping less than 10 pct of London's trees the map is apparently a simulated 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 besides a petty harsh, However to a greater extent than or less other of Cartonerd's criticisms of the map, namely the 'lack of naming conventions for recording species' inwards the data, highlights a actually serious employment amongst 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 besides used the map to notice out the locations of a publish of edible fruit in addition to chestnut trees that I didn't know nearly inwards my neighborhood.
Cartonerd clearly feels that the London Tree Map 'lies' in addition to shouldn't cause got been released until the errors in addition to inconsistencies inwards the information are addressed. If yous alive inwards London I intend that yous however mightiness hold upward interested inwards using the map to manage seat the trees inwards your street in addition to neighborhood. However it is apparently worth bearing inwards postulate heed the inconsistencies inwards the information identified yesteryear Cartonerd in addition to remaining aware that this map shouldn't hold upward read uncritically.
