Did you know that D.C.’s streets are lined with approximately 157,547 trees? Well, now you do.
Thanks to the folks at D.C. Open Data, anyone interested can access and play around with the Urban Forestry Administration’s database of all of the District’s street trees. And this is precisely what Randy Howard Smith, a GIS specialist at Hood College in Frederick, Md., recently decided to do.
Using CARTO’s mapping platform (remember, CARTO is coming to the D.C. area!), Smith made this map, originally posted on Popville, of all 157,547 street trees.
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