A fun coincidence - I saw this link right after jumping off the plane from a trip to Hiiumaa and Saaremaa in Estonia. Public apple trees are everywhere. Additionally, people leave some of their apples in boxes for everyone to take for free - some are in front of houses and shop, others on public bus stops etc. Such a lovely tradition.
Around me I see some people that are very dedicated to exploiting these fruits. They’ll show up with a large group - children, friends, family - and systematically pick everything clean to fill their buckets. It’s really disappointing because they clearly don’t need that much, there’s nothing left for others, and there’s nothing left for wildlife. The worst thing is they usually don’t pay any attention to whether the fruit is ready to be harvested or not - they just grab it all - and that means they’re not likely to get something tasty even for themselves. But there is a mindset to get them before anyone else does, so they take them anyways. Personally I think it is better if these aren’t mapped out, so at least locals who are invested in their community have a chance to pick them responsibly. These maps end up just being used by the exploitative people.
And unfortunately the website has several entries that are in nature reserves where picking is absolutely not allowed. I mailed the owner of the website to let them know.
The city also has some foraging clubs that are quite active. There are many more things to pick in the city's forests and parks: asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, currants, mushrooms, etc.
Leaflet lets you add POIs on a OSM base layer map, you can also extract information from OSM about trees and bushes. If you use dumped data from OSM your data will be considered opendata as well so merging them will mean that you can not prevent other people from using you data.
In short: You do a overpass turbo query to dump data from OSM and import it into sqlite, build a GIS index, serve it as geojson, display that on a slippymap with leafletjs and write an end point to update the data.
i don't want the rats in my neighborhood to return those nutrients to the environment, and i don't like tracking composting fruit into my apartment, though i guess if parrots eat the fruits while they're still on the tree that's okay
A fun coincidence - I saw this link right after jumping off the plane from a trip to Hiiumaa and Saaremaa in Estonia. Public apple trees are everywhere. Additionally, people leave some of their apples in boxes for everyone to take for free - some are in front of houses and shop, others on public bus stops etc. Such a lovely tradition.
minor complaint: every single interaction with the map results in a new item pushed into the browser history
which makes pressing the back key multiple times take you on a fun adventure in reverse!
Rookies
Rule 1: be nice
Here's a detailed one for Toronto,
http://www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fruit-trees-of-toronto
Cool map. But in Copenhagen there are so many toxic lots that I would never take fruit from any tree within the city limits.
What do you mean with toxic?
I am always on the lookout for mullberries.
I really like them and you can't just buy them at a grocery store.
This reminds me of the Stanford Gleaning Project
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15Z25z2IyTYSzH0...
https://fallingfruit.org/
Also they have a freegan section of reported foods being thrown away.
https://fallingfruit.org/?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en
It is a shame they we throw away so much food.
https://www.fruitmap.org/
Yeah this seems to be more popular, at least in England.
Around me I see some people that are very dedicated to exploiting these fruits. They’ll show up with a large group - children, friends, family - and systematically pick everything clean to fill their buckets. It’s really disappointing because they clearly don’t need that much, there’s nothing left for others, and there’s nothing left for wildlife. The worst thing is they usually don’t pay any attention to whether the fruit is ready to be harvested or not - they just grab it all - and that means they’re not likely to get something tasty even for themselves. But there is a mindset to get them before anyone else does, so they take them anyways. Personally I think it is better if these aren’t mapped out, so at least locals who are invested in their community have a chance to pick them responsibly. These maps end up just being used by the exploitative people.
And unfortunately the website has several entries that are in nature reserves where picking is absolutely not allowed. I mailed the owner of the website to let them know.
Edmonton, Canada: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees-Map/ud...
The city also has some foraging clubs that are quite active. There are many more things to pick in the city's forests and parks: asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, currants, mushrooms, etc.
Does this use OSM? Does anyone understand how to integrate your own data with OSM (like this project does) without having to actually add it to OSM?
Leaflet lets you add POIs on a OSM base layer map, you can also extract information from OSM about trees and bushes. If you use dumped data from OSM your data will be considered opendata as well so merging them will mean that you can not prevent other people from using you data.
In short: You do a overpass turbo query to dump data from OSM and import it into sqlite, build a GIS index, serve it as geojson, display that on a slippymap with leafletjs and write an end point to update the data.
Thank you.
https://leafletjs.com/
Ok.
People will use this to systematically harvest what they can and sell it or its byproducts. Tragedy of the commons, etc.
Yeah in my experience most people don't like giving up the location of public apple trees etc. so they can harvest them themselves anyway.
better systematically harvested and sold than fallen to the ground and rotted
Animals will eat those or the composting of the food simply returns nutrients to the environment
i don't want the rats in my neighborhood to return those nutrients to the environment, and i don't like tracking composting fruit into my apartment, though i guess if parrots eat the fruits while they're still on the tree that's okay