Tel-Aviv – Grassroots Mapping http://grassrootsmapping.org Stories of community based mapping projects Sun, 01 Apr 2018 14:24:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 Mapping trees that are in high risk of uprooting at Shapira Neighborhood, Tel Aviv-Yafo http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/shaief/8-24-2012/mapping-trees-are-high-risk-uprooting-shapira-neighborhood-tel-aviv-yafo http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/shaief/8-24-2012/mapping-trees-are-high-risk-uprooting-shapira-neighborhood-tel-aviv-yafo#respond Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:39:26 +0000 https://grassrootsmapping.org/?guid=a26e0966267cadf0760020e7ee759b1b Published originally on my website About two months ago, on June 12th, we woke up to the sounds of heavy machinery. Through the window we saw a bulldozer and a crane uprooting olive trees from the area behind our house. We went outside and stood in fro...]]> Published originally on my website

About two months ago, on June 12th, we woke up to the sounds of heavy machinery. Through the window we saw a bulldozer and a crane uprooting olive trees from the area behind our house. We went outside and stood in front of the bulldozer and caused its operator to stop working. The crane continued to work, so we jumped on a tree. By doing so we prevented the work for about a month and saved 1 out of 4 trees that were uprooted at that day.

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