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Plant-for-the-Planet-org / treemapper

TreeMapper extends the Plant-for-the-Planet Platform and allows on site data registration for restoration initiatives.
https://treemapper.app
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TreeTag Code Generator #364

Open felixfinkbeiner opened 3 years ago

felixfinkbeiner commented 3 years ago

People typically use two types of tree tags in the field. Pre-numbered tags or ones that require adding a tag. For the latter, we could have a simple button that auto-populates the tree-tag field so that people can then write it onto the physical tag. Suggested tags should be as short as possible and ideally be unlikely to duplicate existing tags

norbertschuler commented 3 years ago

A duplicate check might be difficult for Treemapper being an offline tool and thus not being able to check against our backend server for existing tags.

felixfinkbeiner commented 3 years ago

That's a good point, Norbert. We are not that worried about duplicates since these are not unique identifiers, but rather about helping projects differentiate the tree from its neighbouring tree. So if we have a random generator that makes duplicates unlikely, then that's good enough