Woodland Mapping Tools?

[oakandmaple]

I'm about to begin writing my first Woodland Management Plan for the 11 hectare wood I volunteer in.

Any recommendations for apps / tools for the mapping?

 

[Jamie C]

I’ve found myforest to be nice for getting started on the plan. It seems very focused on forestry commission compliant plans. 
 

I’ve also been using QGIS to split out the woodland I’m working on (3 hectares) into 20 metre square so I can map it out by hand bit by bit when I’m there and I’ve got a few minutes between the other stuff we’ve got going on.  
 

When I’m down there I basically use a 20m tape measure from screwfix and a pen and paper. I dont bother with tech stuff in the woodland because reception is rubbish and I cannot afford the super accurate GPS / RTK GPS kit.  

 

Between the two I imagine I’ll get the management plan sorted this summer.  I could totally do it without qgis, but I’m a bit of a tech nerd and I have those skills, so I put them to work.  
 

 

Edited April 15, 2023 by Jamie C
Fixing typos from typing on phone whilst on toilet

[oakandmaple]

Many thanks Jamie. MyForest looks like it has what I need - and QGIS seemed well past my tech capacity.

 

[Jamie C]

Aye - QGIS is definitely a learning curve.  They are also really helpful people. 

[GeoF]

TheLandapp can be pretty useful if you just want to do some simple compartments and make nice looking maps. It's not very forestry focused so you won't be able to do anything too detailed.