Suggested visit
Auckland
Photograph a tree and add it to ALTO
Match your photo to the tree’s ALTO record and add what you see. Accepted visits appear on the tree’s ALTO page.
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How to use KYTE
Photograph the whole tree first, then a few leaves and the bark if you can. On a later visit, stand in the same place, so the two photos can be compared.
Saved visits work offline. The tree records for places you have already looked at stay on this phone; new places and the aerial photos need a connection.
Sign in to back up your trees and open them on another device. You choose which visits to send to ALTO. You can export your visits and their original photos at any time.
KYTE lists the trees nearest the photo’s location, and uses the direction the camera faced when the phone records it. Leaf, flower and fruit photos you send to ALTO also go to Pl@ntNet, which suggests a species to the reviewer.
Missions near you
Trees on streets and in parks that ALTO most needs a photo of. KYTE does not send your location to ALTO: it downloads the missions for your part of Auckland and picks the trees on this phone. The aerial map tiles for your area come from Esri, which sees which tiles are loaded.
Also: Species maxima: measure the girth, trees on streets and in parks from ALTO’s species maxima list whose girth nobody has measured.
Where are you?
Stay on footpaths and tracks, keep off private land and graves, and watch for traffic. Kauri are never missions: keep well clear of their roots.
Find a tree
Search by species, tree number or street. The search runs on this phone: your location stays here, and only the species lists are downloaded.
Species from Auckland Council’s tree records and notable tree schedule, through ALTO. Street and park trees, and the Council’s notable trees. Kauri are left out, so that no one is sent to walk their roots.
A notable tree can stand on private land. Look from the street or a public place, and ask before going in.
Line the labels up with the trees
Open the marked tree in ALTO ↗Know this tree?
Know this tree?
KYTE will ask for your camera, then your location. The location is how it works out which tree you photographed. The photo stays on your phone until you choose to share it.
Opening camera…
Which tree is it?
Tap the tree you photographed, on the map or in the list.
Where is the tree?
This photo has no location. Use your location if you are beside the tree, tap the map where it stands, or find the street.
Tap the map where the tree stands to search there. Tap a numbered tree to choose it.
Where does the new tree stand?
Tap the map at its trunk, or press Enter on the map to place it at the cross-hair, or use one of these.
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Photo location, direction & capture details
Your tree
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About this tree in ALTO
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