[CANUFNET] CANUFNET Digest, Vol 155, Issue 19 - Tree Inventory Software

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Hi Shane,

Peter Wynnyczuk is right in saying that an integrated software solution is 
to be considered to avoid confusion, redundancy and inconsistencies across 
the different departments. If this is the solution your municipality is 
aiming for, make sure to build a list of what the software has to be able 
to do to answer your specific needs. This is going to be a good base for 
discussion with your IT department.

Also, some softwares allow the possibility to work in disconnected mode, 
meaning that you can load your data on your mobile device and synchronise 
it back to the main database when you come back to the office. This could 
be an interesting option if your mobile device does not have a SIM card or 
if it is difficult to connect to the cellular network from certain areas 
of your territory. Also, certain softwares allow for the possibility to 
grant different sets of access rights to different types of users. So you 
could have a group being able only to visualise the data while another 
group has the right to modify, create and delete data, etc...


Johanne Lambert,  B. Sc. Agr., M. Sc.
Conseillère en planification 

Service des grands parcs, du verdissement et du Mont-Royal
Direction de la gestion des parcs et biodiversité
Division - biodiversité urbaine

801, rue Brennan, 4e étage, bureau 4114.09
Montréal (Québec), H3C 0G4 
Tél. : 514 872-1643
Fax : 514 872-9818
johannelambert at ville.montreal.qc.ca 




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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:51:36 -0800
From: Shane Tillapaugh via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net>
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Subject: [CANUFNET] Tree Inventory Software
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Hello fellow CUFN listserv subscribers,

The City of Courtenay (on Vancouver Island, British Columbia) Parks
Division has recently begun to devote more resources to the management of
trees in our city.  This has included the creation of a City Arborist
position a couple of years ago, and more recently we have undertaken a
street tree inventory (+/- 2,000 specimens).  As you might observe, our
urban forestry program is in its infancy.  The inventory of our street
trees has constituted a giant leap forward for our program.  We can now
view our trees and their attributes using ArcGis mapping software.
However, tree attributes are not easily updated, we cannot easily produce
reports reflecting the condition or composition of our trees, nor can we
easily produce work orders from the inventory data.  Furthermore, we would
also like a flexible suite of software options to assist in our management
and care of the mature forest interface throughout our municipality.  We
are currently researching options for map based tree inventory software
that also has an integrated work management system.  So far I have looked
into TreePlotter and ArborPro and both seem to meet most if not all of our
needs.  Any information on your municipal experiences with these or other
software would be much appreciated.


Thanks kindly,


Shane Tillapaugh


City of Courtenay

Acting City Arborist ? Parks Div.

ISA Certified Arborist PN-5981A

ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified

*Stillapaugh at courtenay.ca* <Stillapaugh at courtenay.ca>

*Tel. 250.338.1525*

*Cel. 250.703.6670*
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