Gather existing ash tree data from the city

[sdellis]

Get the ash tree data the city already has into the system. Would need to talk with Bob McQueen, Princeton CIO.

[inomyabcs]

Environmental Commission Meeting is on 6 Dec

[sdellis]

@inomyabcs Is this on a calendar somewhere? Any contact info?

The Shade Tree Commission has a ton of data, but we will need to convert the coordinates to be more GIS-friendly. We also need to validate the data as it's a bit old. Related to #22.

[inomyabcs]

It's on their webpage, http://www.princetonnj.gov/EC/ . I couldn't find the data you mention from Shade Tree. I'll take another look.

[inomyabcs]

Well that was easy. Shade Tree commission has it linked on their main page and it links to.

I wouldn't recommend scraping the website though. There aren't many ash trees in the data and even if we could find the base of the coordinate system they were using, you still have to scrape the data page to find the tree type.

It would make the job easier if we could just ask for the database directly. There is a Shade Tree Commission meeting on 28 Nov at 5:00 PM

[sdellis]

@inomyabcs I got access to the data. I have csv files and access db files. I kind of feel like this should wait until we have a more complete app.