MJD

[MJD]

Afternoon! We have been asked to do some tree condition reports with recommendations for tree works on them in North London. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding creating a site map and plotting the trees on the map. Does it involve subscribing to a service? Thanks for your help.

 

[Suffolk Dave]

Hi , my first question is do you carry out tree surveys already ? What do you use now?

I use requestaplan and Google maps, depends on site size etc other on here may well use various other mapping services as otis, GPS type mapping service etc

most services you pay for but as far as i know Google maps are free as long as you  accredit the map to them, other members I am sure will come with alot more options 

[Steven P]

Not my line of work directly but other plans I work on you can go from very low tech to as techy as you want.

Very low tech, buy a large scale paper print from Ordnance Survey (about £20 sent as a PDF), get out the Sharpies and scribble, scan and send back, to full tech with a professional drawing or CAD package and a GPS coordinate for every tree, wall, ditch, and whatever else you want.

 

I use emapsite for electronic plans, however each is only licensed to use for 1 year (however for records, like a PDF in the archives that is OK), cost to our company is about £20 for a vector map which should do you, plus you'd then need to update that. Might be if it is a one off job you go the Sharpies route, scribble on paper and pass that to a CAD software house to make up something posh. Can also get large scale plans from emapsite too,

 

Can go google earth and make notes on that I think for free.

 

Doing the site maps is easy, getting good software that is affordable is another story.

[MJD]

1 hour ago, Suffolk Dave said:

Hi , my first question is do you carry out tree surveys already ? What do you use now?

I use requestaplan and Google maps, depends on site size etc other on here may well use various other mapping services as otis, GPS type mapping service etc

most services you pay for but as far as i know Google maps are free as long as you  accredit the map to them, other members I am sure will come with alot more options 

We carry out basic tree condition reports but have not been including pans. I’ll take a look at requestaplan.