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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 Contributor License Agreement to get started!

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