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Have you tried using Google Maps to showcase your tree mapping project on your website? Do you wish there was something a little simpler, a little "friendlier" or a little more tree specific? Have you ever wished you could just embed Tremap's super slick tree map interface right into your own website? Tremap Embedded web maps are here! Now you can generate iframe code snippets from within your Tremap web portal account. Centre your map where you wish, choose a zoom level, decide on the width and height of your map in pixels and place your Tremap web map anywhere you wish, embedded right in your own web page! Your site visitors will be able to click on tree markers and explore trees in your collection, just like they can in the Tremap app. Use this great new feature to expand the reach of your project - link to your embedded web map on social media, insert the link in emails and project documentation and instantly raise awareness of your trees!

Last month Tremap attended Theo Crutchley-Mack's art exhibition at Heligan Gardens! Theo Crutchley-Mack at Heligan with his new book 'A Story of Cornish Trees". Tremap is delighted to be featured in Theo's book 'A Story of Cornish Trees' with eight iconic trees in Cornwall. You can find the location of these trees using the Tremap app. Tremap's CreativeConnect feature allows artists to attach their creative work to trees and advertise to a global audience through Tremap. The Tremap Webmap. Theo Crutchley-Mack and Jonathon Jones OBE at Heligan. CreativeConnect will soon allow artists to link and sell their work through our global platform! Check out Tremap in Theo's book here!

We're delighted to welcome BioCoS to the family of Tremap users! BioCoS, based on the island of Crete, Greece, provides varietal identification and DNA traceability for olive trees throughout the Mediterranean countries. They're using Tremap's great new embedded web map feature to build client portfolio maps and provide added-value marketing tools to their clients. This is just the kind of use case we had in mind when we built Tremap, and we love to see it in action! Check out BioCoS here.

Now you can embed your logo directly in the Tremap app interface! You can even add client logo's or icons or logos for your current tree project! Clickable logos are a great way to link to our other great new feature: embedded web maps! Add a company or project logo to the trees in your collection and let app users tap and visit your embedded web map, directly on your own website! Add embedded logos to the Tremap app interface in just three easy steps: 1) log in to your Tremap web portal account 2) upload the png or jpg file for the logo 3) enter the URL of the page you want users to link to and click Save! You'll have just added a powerful new public engagement tool to your arsenal of marketing tools! Embedded logos are a great way to raise awareness of your tree project or collection. Every Tremap app user on the planet will see your logo in the preview pane for all trees in your collection (unless you've hidden the trees from public viewing). One tap of the logo in the Tremap app, and they'll be delivered directly to a URL of your choice! We love this new feature! It's a great way to harness the power of Tremap as a marketing and PR tool for tree projects - great for directing traffic to your site or even sending users to social media channels!

Tremap to present at International Sustainable Agriculture Day hosted by ConnectClean! Tremap's mapping and digital labelling platform provides a powerful, economical and super simple toolkit for managing comercial tree based crops. Initially, Tremap has begun providing commercial growers in the olive industry with traceability-to-source and olive variety mapping solutions. This same technology is readily applicable to any other tree-based crop. Earlier in the month Tremap attended the World Olive Oil Exhibition in Madrid where there was clear focus on the need for traceability. By scanning a QR code on a bottle of olive oil, the Tremap platform lets the consumer see exactly where their oil comes from, the ecological setting of the farm, what grows nearby etc. Tremap adds value to Spanish brands by engaging the consumer and telling the story behind the olive oil. Tremap will continue to work in Spain and are quickly expanding to other countries and other commercial products. Tremap will be at the International Sustainable Agriculture Day in Valencia, Spain hosted by ConnectClean on the 21st of March 2023.

Tremap is delighted to introduce the Tremap Roundtable - a forum for understanding needs, sharing experience and ideas, and exploring solutions. The first in a series this year, the Tremap Roundtable on February 3rd 2023 will bring together representatives from local/regional authorities, citizen science, tree advocacy, space tech and voices from the corporate sector. At this first one, we'll be exploring: How could the Tremap app be used to engage citizen scientists in the community to work alongside regional/local authorities and help with some of the repetitive surveying/monitoring/tracking/mapping tasks involved in tree care? By "tree care" we mean not just managing Ash Dieback, but also things like: tracking tree planting projects and providing accountability / transparency / monitoring for those; bringing TPO systems up to date and making them actually reflect reality (big pain point in councils, we understand); providing transparency and accountability in carbon projects and net-zero targets/tree planting; raising public awareness of trees in the urban landscape etc. We want to bring these voices together, listen to what the pain points are, talk about how we could better work together to care for trees and explore some solutions. Agenda The first half of our day will go as follows: 10:00-10:15 Tremap welcome and Introduction 10:15-11:00 Roundtable 1 - Overview: the overall problem, the tech players' tools, the stakeholders 11:00-11:15 Comfort break and coffee/tea 11:15-12:00 Roundtable 2 - Pain Points in managing ADAPs and other urban tree care tasks: Identifying and Prioritizing the needs and difficulties faced by stakeholders 12:00-12:15 Comfort break and coffee/tea 12:15-13:00 Roundtable 3 - Roadmap: Initial exploration of potential solutions using Tremap, citizen science and corporate sponsorship 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 "Perspectives on Citizen Science programmes in tree care" Addresses and Conclusion Then, to finish up the day, we plan a general Q&A session and summary of what's surfaced during the discussions. Speakers Dr. David Slawson (Imperial College London) is going to join us remotely from Ayrshire and present his experience and views. You might know him from his work as lead of OPAL. He now represents the UK Tree Health Citizen Science Network at Forest Research and has a tremendous depth of insight and experience in citizen science + trees. We also have Dr. John Kress (Smithsonian Institution) speaking remotely from NY, USA (he's sort of a "founding father" of citizen science + trees + apps in the USA). Sir Tim Smit and a group from Eden Project will also be with us in person and quite a few others from regional and local councils, tree advocacy groups, corporate sponsorship and space tech suppliers etc. It should be a very relevant and helpful mix of voices. How to Attend The event is hybrid - in person attendance at Tremap's facility in Nanpean, Cornwall or by remote access. If you'd like to attend in person, please contact richardmaxwell@tremap.com If you'd like to register for remote attendance, please register here.

Tremap is delighted to be the recipient of generous grant funding by UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) and Innovate UK. 2022 has been a fantastic year on the development front! Tremap's software development team is on track to release Version 2.0 of the Tremap web portal and app in January (2023) and with that, the world's first global database of trees and accompanying web portal and app will be available. The toolkit is built and ready for use! And that opens up a whole new landscape to explore for Tremap: just how can this powerful but super-simple tool best be used? In partnership with Cornwall based creative partner Evident Agency, Tremap will now conduct a 6 month in-depth study of how we might take the basic global tree database platform and software tools (Cloud based web portal and iOS/Android app) and develop those further to solve our planet's environmental problems. Specifically, Tremap sees a powerful role for itself in regional and local council tree-care tasks in: mitigating Ash Dieback (implementation of council ADAPs) alleviating bottlenecks in compliance issues and TPO (Tree Preservation Order) system management providing transparency and accountability/reporting for council carbon offset/net-zero tree programmes public/communities programmes to help citizens lift some of the burden (budgetary and staffing) of tree care from councils, engage in trees and become invested in them. The InnovateUK funded planet-centred Design Foundations project will examine those four areas and, in liaison with councils and communities alike, determine just how Tremap can be developed and used to care for trees. There are professional tree management software platforms. There are citizen science tree interest apps. Tremap is unique in bridging the gap between both of those. A platform for both the professional and the public, the academic and the amateur, Tremap is set to be the planet's most innovative tree care platform, quite simply because of how it's used and who uses it. Thanks to backing by InnovateUK, Tremap and Evident are setting out to fund out from councils and communities exactly how that should look.

Tremap gives citizen scientists access to first global platform for tree recording Earth observation and smartphones enable everyone to support environmental regeneration. As international governments propose ambitious tree planting programmes to reverse habitat degradation, one key challenge is being overlooked: “we don’t have a reliable way of knowing what trees we have,” said Jonathon Jones, Founder and CEO of Tremap, presenting at Agri-TechE’s REAP 2022 Start-Up Showcase. The Cornwall-based agri-tech start-up has created the world’s first global tree platform for recording and locating trees. The app is already in use by a number of botanic gardens to replace manual methods of tree surveying. Jonathon explains that the idea for Tremap was born in Cornwall to provide a cost-effective management tool for tree collections that would replace the need to physically label the trees. “Tree surveys are incredibly time consuming and only conducted across small areas,” said Jonathon. “The concept for Tremap worked so well that we have increased its scope. It now consists of an international database of trees with an easy-to-use app for recording and visualisation.” Tremap combines existing tree databases with satellite imagery from earth observation to create a global map, which is being ground-truthed with a smartphone app. Jonathon continues: “The Tremap platform makes contributing to and viewing the world's first global database of trees engaging and enjoyable. It puts tree mapping into the hands of everyone with a smartphone app.” Applications include collating collections in botanical gardens, arboretums and public green spaces, evaluation of tree planting programmes, measurement of tree loss, and identification of particular species for conservation programmes. Tremap is now open to private investment and has already been the recipient of generous funding by the ERDF, Agritech Cornwall, Tevi and AeroSpace Cornwall. The company is collaborating with the University of Exeter in the UK and the Smithsonian Institution in the USA to further develop the mapping, and has several early adopter development partners, including The Eden Project in Cornwall. Jonathon welcomed the opportunity to present Tremap in the REAP Start-Up Showcase: “REAP is a very good opportunity to present Tremap's latest development achievements to the media, and indirectly to our key markets. We are very open to discussion with potential investors and funding entities from the private and public sectors.” Dr Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE, comments: “Trees are of fundamental importance to our survival, and Tremap is offering an innovative way to record and manage stocks of forestry. I am sure that it will attract significant interest from the agri-tech innovation ecosystem. REAP has provided profile for many exciting early-stage businesses with collaborators, end users and investors. 14 of the companies previously featured have collectively raised over £92 Million in the last three years.”

Lots of challenges await a tech start-up like Tremap. There are, however, some great advantages to being small, agile and fast-growing! One of those is the ability to provide some truly unique opportunities for university students just entering the work world. We're developing in all kinds of areas at Tremap. And as we move into new territory, we're delighted to give a number of students the chance to join us in our journey. We're partnering with Exeter University, in SW England to offer a range of student placements. Successful candidates will join us on at least four different development projects, ranging from video and photographic app content libraries, to multilingual taxonomy projects, to helping design and build the Tremap global tree database. Tremap offers candidates extremely flexible weekly commitment schedules, and total freedom to work remotely or at its offices in Cornwall. Potential applicants can apply via Handshake. See the links below for more information! https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/edu/jobs/56835 https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/edu/jobs/56833 https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/edu/jobs/56834 https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/edu/jobs/56836 https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/emp/jobs/56837

Santiago, the capital of Chile, is ideally placed at the foot of the Andes Mountains - one can escape into nature within just a few minutes. In the foothills of the Andes grows the "sclerophyllous forest" that occurs in the Central Zone of Chile. The trees growing in this region are used to poor soils and a dry climate, experiencing only three months of partial rains. On my recent tour to the area, I wanted to visit a solitary Quillay (Quillaja saponaria) once again - a stately tree growing at 1,900 meters above sea level. It's the largest known example of the species. Access to this tree requires a climb of about three hours. Quillay (Quillaja saponaria) in the foothills of the Andes Mountains The Quillaja saponaria is an endemic tree from the central zone of Chile. The popular name Quillay comes from the Mapuche word "Küllay", which means "to wash." Indigenous people have used it as soap to wash clothes, hair and teeth. Its scientific name saponaria means "soap," because the bark can be made into a powder that serves as soap. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the massive exploitation of its bark for export to Europe and North America led to the destruction of many Quillay forests. For this reason, since 1944, the extraction of its bark requires special authorisation. In recent years, Quillay saponins have been a source of key ingredients for vaccine production, including the experimental Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. Original blog posted in Spanish, by Rodrigo Fernandez (see Spanish blog page).

We're pleased to announce that Tevi, in co-operation with the ERDF, has allocated Tremap funding to develop its app and database platform. As a Cornwall based tech startup, we are delighted to have the support of local Cornish entities. Together, we're putting the South West of England on the global map as a key exporter of technology and innovation! Tremap will be investing aggressively during the rest of 2022 in the development of its global database, a version 2.0 of the proof-of-concept app and a brand new web portal for botanical gardens, arboreta, private collections and urban green spaces. Thanks to the generous support of Tevi and the ERDF, Tremap aims to substantially disrupt the current botanical collection management software offering and bring an entirely new platform to the global market - a "win-win" for both Tremap and the local entities that support our development! Press enquiries? Looking for investment opportunities? Get in touch with us for more information: help@tremap.com

Tremap talks to Andy Coote about all things Tremap, and in particular our plans for a pilot project in Falmouth's Kimberley Park. Listen to the interview on Thank Source its Friday (20th of May here, starting from 34:10) https://podcasts.canstream.co.uk/sourcefm/index.php?cat=Thank%20Source%20Its%20Friday