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Re: Tt: Treetown Software
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Just some thoughts. Should there be a field specifying N-E-S-W
orientation. In areas with tall buildings would a line guessing how many
hours of direct light the tree receives make sense? Should there be
a column indicating whether the tree is in a public or private place.
Should there be a column about tree pit size and condition? OK I'll
stop. These are probably
more important for someone thinking about doing a bit of serious research
than anyone else.
Lisa
New York City
Fall arrived four days ago.
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997,
RT Ellsberry wrote:
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> To Treetown -
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> Before I get too technical, I've been thinking lately about
> 'cosmetic pruning,' the kind where you avoid taking out the
> whole tree by preserving some part of it. There are probably
> great stories out there where some creative surgery solved
> a serious problem, and also saved a tree's life. Especially
> for some older (and in-the-way) tree ...
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> Now what I'm really writing about is that there has been sig-
> nificant progress toward a friendly Treetown shareware, that will
> help community groups properly inventory their local forests. It
> will run as a standalone app under Windows 95 (apologies), and I
> think we can reasonably promise its delivery over the web before
> spring planting (March 98). The beta model will be offered freely
> to community tree stewards, probably for the foreseeable future.
>
> Requesting your feedback on a selection of 'column headers.' For
> each individual tree there are 20 fields proposed in the database.
> ('House' and 'Owner' information will be kept in a separate table.)
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> 1. Tree: 999 (IntegerIndex)
> 2. Address: 722 (Number)
> 3. Street: Anneslie Road (Text)
> 4. CommonName: White Oak (Text)
> 5. Genus: Quercus (LatinText)
> 6. Species: Alba (LatinText)
> 7. Girth: 9.5 (Number)
> 8. Diameter: 3.2 (Number)
> 9. Spread: 50 (Number)
> 10. Height: 90 (Number)
> 11. InUnits: Feet (Feet|Inches|Meters)
> 12. Age: 100 (Number)
> 13. Condition: Lookin' Good! (Text)
> 14. Comment: Recent pruning. (Text)
> 15. OwnerLName: Ellsberry (Text)
> 16. SeeAlso: 721 Anneslie (Text)
> 17. RecordedBy: Richard (Text)
> 18. RecordDate: 10/19/97 (Date)
> 19. (Available) (Text)
> 20. (Available) (Text)
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> The 'diameter' field will automatically calculate the 'girth' (circum-
> ference) and vice-versa. Also you can change from feet to meters on
> the fly and the correct values will be displayed. All columns should
> be sortable, so that one can locate 'All Quercus' or 'All Trees Over
> 75 Years' or 'All Trees On Anneslie Road.' This is the current spec
> sheet, not yet implemented. Your comments appreciated (on-list or off).
>
> Richard@Flora.Com
> Treetown ListOp
> Baltimore USDA Zone 7
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