Monday, December 30, 2013

The Numbering System

If you walk around any major German city....along the way, there are trees, and you will notice a "tag" on most major avenues on each tree.

What the park service of each town has done.....with younger apprentice kids under their training program is have them go out and ID trees.

If you went and asked about two hundred trees along such and such avenue...they'd tell you X number of elms or oaks.  A map would lay out the trees and locations.

Does any of this really matter?  As an American, I can say it's nice data.....but it's hard to see value.  Of course, if you got a dozen 15-year old kids sitting around, and just want to toss busy work at them.....well...it's not for a total loss.  The other side of this is that you can kinda predict when the trees have reached maximum age and should plan a campaign to cut them and plant new trees.

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