{"id":436,"date":"2006-08-23T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/436"},"modified":"2006-08-23T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:44:21","slug":"tree-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/436","title":{"rendered":"Tree Map!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finally had a chance to start my long-awaited Tree Map. I had this idea about last year this time. I wanted to catalog and map the climbing trees of Champaign. I had access to a GPS unit,   and Google Maps, so it only took me a full year to get started on it.<\/p>\n<p>Having friends with me helped. Laurie and Steph and I divvied up the tasks, and began walking around Champaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/222926839\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/76\/222926839_fc20978cfe_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"gear.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steph would try to identify each tree, Laurie would photograph it, and I wrote down the latitude and longitude of each tree, along with the notes the other two observed. We rated the trees for climbability too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/222926890\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/87\/222926890_70c5a90ab0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"S+tree.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course we had to try out the trees.<\/p>\n<p>I tested out a particularly small-crotched locust (gasp?! yeah, we get to use the word &#8216;crotch&#8217; a lot) on Neil Street, and came away a bit bloody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/222937300\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/89\/222937300_adc7bdf920_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"she's a brick house\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A passerby asked if I had just won or lost a bet, and I explained the cataloging idea. I looked down and realized I was bleeding. Luckily, Steph is every bit a Girl Scout leader, and had environmentally-friendly baby wipes for me to get the blood and bark off of my skin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to start figuring out this whole Google Maps thing soon. I&#8217;d also like to catalog a lot more trees. If anybody has a particular favorite, let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finally had a chance to start my long-awaited Tree Map. I had this idea about last year this time. I wanted to catalog and map the climbing trees of Champaign. I had access to a GPS unit, and Google Maps, so it only took me a full year to get started on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tree-map"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}