Portland, Oregon/Tree Inventory Import Plan

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Portland Tree Inventory Import is an import of the Portland Tree inventories (Street Tree Inventory and Parks Tree Inventory) dataset which is an inventory of trees covering Portland, Oregon in the United States. As of October 2026, the import is at the planning stage.

Goals

Import Portland's tree inventory into OpenStreetMap, including species and size data

Schedule

TBD

Import Data

Street Tree Inventory - approximately 250,000 street trees, most with genus/species information and DBH Parks Tree Inventory - approximately 25,000 trees in Portland parks Heritage Trees - 463 notable "heritage" trees

Background

Portland Open Data is available under the PDDL, as noted in the terms of service, section VI: Except where otherwise stated in the file containing such Data or on the page from which such Data is accessed, including its metadata, Data on the PortlandMaps Open Data website are made available under the Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0, the full text of which can be found at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/

Data source site: https://gis-pdx.opendata.arcgis.com/
Data license: PDDL
Link to permission (if required): As declared in the [Terms of Service https://www.portlandmaps.com/documents/terms-of-service]
ODbL Compliance verified: yes

OSM Data Files

TBA

Import Type

Identify if this is a one-time or recurring import and whether you'll be doing it with automated scripts, etc.

Identify what method will be used for entering the imported data into the OSM database - e.g. API, JOSM, MapRoulette, etc.

Data Preparation

Data Reduction & Simplification

Describe your plans, if any, to reduce the amount of data you'll need to import.

Examples of this include removing information that is already contained in OSM or simplifying shapefiles.

Tagging Plans

Describe your plan for mapping source attributes to OSM tags.

Changeset Tags

Fill in the values your changesets will use.

Key Value
comment
import yes
source name of the source dataset
source:url dataset link
source:date age of dataset at time of import, if known.
import:page link to this wiki page
source:license license of source dataset, using this format.

Data Transformation

Describe the transformations you'll need to conduct, the tools you're using, and any specific configurations or code that will be used in the transformation.

Data Transformation Results

Post a link to your OSM XML files.

Data Merge Workflow

Team Approach

Describe if you'll be doing this solo or as a team.

Workflow

Detail the steps you'll take during the actual import.

Information to include:

  • Step by step instructions
  • Changeset size policy
  • Revert plans

Conflation

Identify your approach to conflation here.

QA

Add your QA plan here.

Discussion

The post to the community forum was sent on YYYY-MM-DD and can be found here

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