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OpenTreeMap is open source software for collaborative, geography-enabled urban tree inventory. OpenTreeMap provides an easy-to-use public inventorying platform that enables individuals, organizations, and governments to collaboratively contribute to an interactive and dynamic map of a community’s tree population. OpenTreeMap is a project of Azavea and Urban Ecos.

OpenTreeMap is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more info.

Want to contribute? Check out our How to Get Involved page to get some ideas on how to start. Once you're at the point where you'd like to contribute back some code, make sure you read and return a signed copy of our Contributor License Agreement to Andrew Thompson at ( athompson at azavea dot com ).

Installation Guides (Start here!)

  • System Architecture Diagram - Want to get a quick feel for the components of OpenTreeMap and how they're installed together, before you go about doing so? Take a look at this diagram.
  • VM (Vagrant) based install process - Official step-by-step installation instructions for Vagrant or other virtual machines. This is the most current document (for v1.3) and covers installation from a blank machine to getting a viewable treemap in detail.
  • Install process on Ubuntu 12.04 - Alternate, community-contributed install guide. Currently only covers part of the process, but is occasionally updated.
  • First Installation - More basic and older document for OpenTreeMap v1.2.

Other Documentation

  • External Data - Data (ecological, trees, geographic) required by OpenTreeMap v1.2/v1.3
  • Importing Data - Data importers and geographic considerations for v1.2/v1.3
  • Setting up Geoserver - Detailed, community-contributed documentation about the specifics of Geoserver and OpenTreeMap.
  • Users and Groups - Considerations for setting up trusted users and managers for v1.2 or v1.3

Other OpenTreeMap Repositories

Implementations

Mailing Lists

IRC

Chat about OpenTreeMap on #opentreemap on freenode

Other Information

  • Contributors - Organizations and individuals who contributed to OpenTreeMap
  • Funders - Organizations that have contributed funding