TREEMULATOR

Guard counter

Counting step

Work done

Count survival

For each species, enter how many plants are still alive, or the share in percent. On a large area, count in a few sample plots and enter the share. The mean height is optional. From two counts with height, the app calculates the growth per year.

Install as app

As an app, Treemulator starts with its own icon and without the address bar. The browser is then also no longer allowed to delete data and maps when storage runs low. On iPhone, iPad and in Safari this is the only reliable protection. There, the browser otherwise deletes all data if the page is not opened for a week. If you remove the app, the device usually deletes its data too. Back it up as a file first.

Share areas

Treemulator creates a file with the areas. Choose how to send it. Nothing is sent until you tap “Send”.

How to send

The public map has not been set up yet. Until then, the box cannot be ticked.

Take over areas

Areas included

    Area recorded

    Use of the area
    Name of the area

    Planning

    1 Site

    2 Soil and conditions

    3 Existing vegetation

    4 Tree species

    5 Wildflower area and small habitats

    6 Result

    Planting plan

    Planting the sub-area

    Sub-area . The suggestions come from the planning of this area. Adjust the values if needed.

    Track type

    Length . Nothing is planted on tracks. Whatever grows there is driven over at the first timber harvest.

    Type

    Wildflower strip for insects

    Never sow next to busy roads or tracks.

    Vehicles kill insects, even bicycles. A wildflower strip beside a traffic route lures the insects right there and does more harm than good.

    Length , area . Nothing is planted on the strip, otherwise the trees shade it within a few years.

    Type of wildflower area

    Add to calendar

    Treemulator writes the tasks into a calendar file. Outlook and Apple Calendar also take the reminder from it. In a shared calendar, everyone involved sees the tasks.

    Types of task

    Importing into the calendar

    On a computer: When you open the file, Outlook and Apple Calendar ask whether to add the tasks. In Google Calendar, import the file via calendar.google.com, Settings, “Import”. Google then reminds you according to its own settings, not those in the file.

    iPhone and iPad: Tap the file, then “Add All”.

    Android: The Google Calendar app does not open such files. Import the file via calendar.google.com on a computer, or open it with a calendar app that reads .ics files, such as Samsung Calendar.

    After you record completed work, Treemulator recalculates the next task. Then transfer the tasks again. Calendars that read the task identifier replace the old entry. In other calendars, delete the old entry first.

    Report an error

    This app and its texts were created with the help of artificial intelligence and checked by hand in German; this translation was also made with its help. Even so, explanations may be misleading or information wrong.

    Please report such errors. The operator of Treemulator reads every report, even about a single word. Technical information such as tree species, sites and planting distances is checked especially carefully.

    It is sent with your own email program. There you see the whole text and can still change it.

    Your map keys

    Sharp aerial images worldwide are only available with an account at a map provider. Enter the key here. The app then shows that provider’s aerial image, even where no free aerial image from a survey office is available.

    If your provider allows it, restrict the key there to the address of this app. Then others cannot use it, even if they know it.

    Google is deliberately missing. Google prohibits showing its maps together with other maps, even with a valid key. Bing no longer exists; its successor is Azure Maps.

    User guide

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    Creating an area

    The map view offers three ways to create an area:

    “Draw area” is for the desk. Tap the corners on the aerial image.

    “Walk the corners” is for fieldwork. Go to each corner and tap “Set corner here” there.

    “Walk the boundary” is for areas with many corners. Walk along the edge. The app sets a point every 8 m.

    While you walk, the screen stays on so that location tracking does not stop. Avoid switching to another app meanwhile.

    Draw a hedge as a narrow strip, about 150 × 5 m.

    You can move corners later in the area with “Move corners”. A walked area then loses the note “recorded on site with GPS”.

    Plan planting

    Which tree species suits which place is normally judged by an expert on site. The “Plan planting” button in the area reproduces part of this assessment. The app retrieves altitude, slope, aspect and climate (today and around 2050) and combines them with your information on soil, moisture and deer. From this it suggests tree species with reasons and states the number of plants, protection, planting time and collection date. You can overwrite any value.

    Count survival

    Under “Survival” in the area, enter during the inspection how many plants of each species are still alive, or the share from a few sample plots. From this the app calculates how much has survived and failed and, with the mean height from two counts, the growth per year. In the next planning on this area and on areas nearby, the counted share appears under the species.

    Collect guards

    The “Collect guards” tile in the “Tasks” tab counts the guards and stakes still standing in the forest. Material that rots in the forest is not counted.

    When collecting, the app counts guards, stakes and, for fences, mesh and fence posts, each with its own counter. If you pull out guard and stake in one go, select both counters at the top. Then one press counts both.

    On “Only collect guards” areas, the counter also counts the stock. Select “Stock in the forest” at the top and, as you walk the area, count the guards still standing. This gives the total.

    Data server

    Treemulator needs no server and no accounts. Each device stores its own data, and the app works in the forest without a network. That is why data is not synchronised automatically and two people cannot edit the same area at the same time.

    Areas, guards and tasks only leave the device if you share them yourself. The map images, however, come from third-party services. These receive your device’s connection data with every request. The privacy policy lists which services they are. Links to the providers are in the legal notice.

    Recommendation for a forestry operation: Each person keeps their own areas and sends them on, for example after a walk through the forest. One device collects all areas, usually that of the district manager. Everyone sends their areas there and receives the complete set back from there.

    With your own server, for municipalities and forestry operations: A version with its own server is possible, for example on a server of the municipality. The devices then synchronise their areas automatically as soon as they have a network. In the forest they keep working without a network. The data is then also stored on this server. This version is developed on request. Requests to the operator of Treemulator: info@treemulator.org. The privacy policy states how long requests are kept.