UK's Ancient Tree Inventory

Archive.org link since it's already creaking a bit: https://web.archive.org/web/20250403094724/https://ati.woodl...

Most interesting examples are at https://web.archive.org/web/20240112222212/https://ati.woodl... and https://web.archive.org/web/20210926031301/https://ati.woodl...

Thanks for posting. It's so good to see this sort of stuff on Hacker News - so good to see other programmers who care about trees and the natural world. I just found out about a giant redwood in a Victorian park very close to where I grew up that I never knew about.

If you like this, you might also like OpenTrees.org:

> OpenTrees.org is the world's largest database of municipal street and park trees, produced by harvesting open data from dozens of different sources.

— https://opentrees.org/

Related:

Ancient Tree Inventory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318132 - Nov 2023 (11 comments)

The Sycamore Gap tree was only about 150 years old. Sure it was striking given the position, but the outrage over it seems to be somewhat overexagerated.

Compare far less outrage when a restaurant chain chopped down a 500 year old tree. Where are the nationwide discussions about whether the CEO or branch manager (heh) or whatever should be going to prison for 5 years or 10 years.

love the idea and the data but the map just being kinda broken ruins this, the markers disappear when you zoom in, doesn't show the image of the tree when you click on it.

if you were trying to find interesting trees to visit with this in a browsing way it would be tedious.

Good idea, though it's failing to load when you point to another city than the one that was loaded automatically

there was an(old old) tree, and surounding medow destroyed for a roundabout(recent), not just any tree, but one with a literary conection, the authors name escapes me, the house of the author is part of the councils holdings, as was the tree and medow, but, famously, as per another author, "but roundabouts must be built", england somewhere , last 3-4 years

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Brilliant resource. I'm not sure about the word 'inventory' though. Wikipedia says:

"a quantity of the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation"

I hope that ancient trees are more than that.