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Steven Cea

My research into this area has uncovered a few options. The US forestry service has a number of tools called i-Tree that might help, https://www.itreetools.org/ Click on tools and check out i-Tree Eco. You will need to download the program. Eco allows you to create an inventory and define the fields you want. In addition to GPS you can record size, crown health, etc. Another tool called My Tree will allow you to record the trees on your property to determine the value they have for energy reduction, water runoff avoided, carbon capture, etc. It's not an inventory, but cool. The Design module can help you plan future plantings, and Species can help you select trees based on some variables. I have also used Google Maps to save locations. locate a point on the map and click on Save. It will give you an option to save to Favorites, Want To Go, or create a new list. I haven't tried it, but you can stand under the tree, click on the location in Maps and then save it. Drop a pin, click on the GPS coordinates and save it. You can add a label to describe the tree. Hope this helps. Let me know what you think.

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Reply to: My research into this area has uncovered a few options. The US forestry service has a number of tools called i-Tree that might help, https://www.itreetools.org/ Click on tools and check out i-Tree Eco. You will need to download the program. Eco allows you to create an inventory and define the fields you want. In addition to GPS you can record size, crown health, etc. Another tool called My Tree will allow you to record the trees on your property to determine the value they have for energy reduction, water runoff avoided, carbon capture, etc. It's not an inventory, but cool. The Design module can help you plan future plantings, and Species can help you select trees based on some variables. I have also used Google Maps to save locations. locate a point on the map and click on Save. It will give you an option to save to Favorites, Want To Go, or create a new list. I haven't tried it, but you can stand under the tree, click on the location in Maps and then save it. Drop a pin, click on the GPS coordinates and save it. You can add a label to describe the tree. Hope this helps. Let me know what you think.

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Dan _Staley (5b Sunset 2B AHS 7)

I'm an ArcGIS user, and it is expensive. Great tool but you don't want to consume that software just for your task. Several cities around here have taken to Google Maps for such tasks. My wife uses it for the forestry department in the city where she works. You can also use an app called GPS Status that has some good toys in there that allow you to keep a record.

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Reply to: I'm an ArcGIS user, and it is expensive. Great tool but you don't want to consume that software just for your task. Several cities around here have taken to Google Maps for such tasks. My wife uses it for the forestry department in the city where she works. You can also use an app called GPS Status that has some good toys in there that allow you to keep a record.

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I am going to use GPS Navigator to mark (pin) the tree locations. This software then exports a .txt file which I can put in excel. It also loads from an excel spreadsheet and puts the locations on a google map. So I am going to keep a spreadsheet and update it as needed over time. When I want to look at the information on a map I will load it into GPS Visualizer. Someone said above that the accuracy is not good enough to go out to the trees and get the coordinates using my cell phone and they are right. I tried and the accuracy of 3-5 meters is too inaccurate. I can get much more accurate by using the map and identifying the tree locations via other landmarks. But unfortunately this doesn't work near/under the tree canopy. So I am not sure what I will do there, just wing it I guess. Close will have to be good enough. Thanks for the good discussion.

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Reply to: I am going to use GPS Navigator to mark (pin) the tree locations. This software then exports a .txt file which I can put in excel. It also loads from an excel spreadsheet and puts the locations on a google map. So I am going to keep a spreadsheet and update it as needed over time. When I want to look at the information on a map I will load it into GPS Visualizer. Someone said above that the accuracy is not good enough to go out to the trees and get the coordinates using my cell phone and they are right. I tried and the accuracy of 3-5 meters is too inaccurate. I can get much more accurate by using the map and identifying the tree locations via other landmarks. But unfortunately this doesn't work near/under the tree canopy. So I am not sure what I will do there, just wing it I guess. Close will have to be good enough. Thanks for the good discussion.

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