December 2019 Updates
After trialling the visitor counter sensors in Devonport Park, we re-deployed those counters to Plymouth Hoe with the help of community volunteers so we can gather data and understand the visitor numbers and movements around Plymouth Hoe.
The data from Devonport Park and Central Park is now available on the Open Data Platform.
The tree mapping we conducted in Central Park, with The DataPlace, Friends of Central Park and some volunteers form Calor has now been uploaded on to the Open Data Platform.
Due to the success of the mapping we are now going to conduct the mapping in Devonport Park on Ferry Field. This will map the current situation, location of the trees including species and condition which will support the design of a new planting scheme for 100 new trees in Devonport Park.
Technology
StumpD Sensors
Working with our tech partners, The Data Place, we created and trialled simple footfall counters into Devonport Park to get baseline quantitative user information including most used entrances / exits as well as high traffic areas of the park.
We already have some footfall data for Central Park which is held on the Open Data Platform, which was collected in 2018. This data will be put together with the Devonport Park data we have collected.
We are now about to place some more sensors on to Plymouth Hoe to gather data on our final pilot site for the project. All of this data will be available once downloaded and we will use this to identify and develop some interventions for those sites, working closely with our partners and local communities.
Tree Mapping
The Data Place have created an app which enabled us to map trees in an area of Central Park with volunteers from the Plymouth Tree Partnership in September 2019. The Data Place are working with the data to put it in a presentable format for public consumption. This app allows us to map location, species, comments and images of the trees. This data is available on the Open Data Platform for you to view.
Data
Led by The Data Place, we released parks data onto our Open Data platform for a Dataplay event in November, which brings tech experts together with greenspace staff to collaborate and innovate.
30 amount of people came together to answer a variety of scenario based questions, revealing key themes and ideas using data we already hold on the Open Data platform as well as what we might need to gather.
The questions, key ideas, outcomes and potential tech interventions included:
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