Tree Trails 4+

Please allow entry of trees outside TX - can’t enter common species like Pine,White.
Please allow user to fill in or expand tree library. Nothing else out there quite like it - so close!

This is so promising, and yet so clunky, it’s extremely frustrating. Once you put a trail on the map, you cannot reorder points or add a new one in the middle. You can extend one end or the other, but that’s no use for editing. You have to delete points until you get back to the place where you want to add a new one and then put the others back on in order.

The phone app is supposed to allow photo uploads. I guess this is possible if you create the trail on your phone? I created a trail on the web and then viewed it in the app. I can see the trail, but I can’t click on a tree to see attributes, much less add photos.

The species list is spotty. I had to use American sycamore for Mexican sycamore, and chinaberry I just called “other broadleaf.” I struggled to enter Monterey Oak awhile, until I figured out I have to type “oak, [species],” and it’s called Mexican white instead of Monterey. I wish I could just use scientific names (this box is grayed out and auto-populates from the common name).

Sometimes I can’t get it to accept a species. The drop down menu will appear, but when I click on a species, it leaves the box empty. I think I figured out that it can’t distinguish which dot is which if they are too close. I can zoom in, making a clear separation between trees, and then it lets me add a species. Maybe this is coincidence, IDK.

The website calculates benefits, but it’s hard to figure out how to narrow the list of trees calculated. I notice in the browser that I can click an individual tree and get its benefits, or click the trail and get cumulative benefits, but it took some figuring out. Mostly it showed either zero benefits, or statewide. I tried a page refresh to calculate the on-screen benefits, but that just started over with the full map of the state and I had to zoom in again. It just seems to catch up eventually and you never know if it’s done and broken, or if it’s working very slowly. Again, the phone app won’t even let me click on a tree, so I couldn’t get benefits in the app.

I have almost given up on this thing, but I will try to make some use of it since I’ve spent so much time already trying.

Great app! Love it!