"In D.C., You Can Now Plant A Tree With Little More Than A Click"

"It's Arbor Day, and some arborists in D.C. have a little more work to do thanks to a new website. It's called Get D.C. Trees and makes it easier than ever for residents to request new trees along their neighborhood streets.

The website came from Code for D.C. programmer Emanuel Feld, who saw that the city's Urban Forestry Administration had data on every street tree box in D.C. and was happy to share it.

His new website puts that data in interactive map form. Visit the site and you'll see the diamond of D.C., covered with orange dots representing every place where a new street tree could conceivably be planted.

'It basically shows you what they see. They have to know where trees could be planted, or where there's a box where there's maybe an electrical line that prevents a tree from being planted there,' he says. 'It's all the information that's important to them and that they're very nicely sharing with the public.'   "

Jonathan Wilson reports for WAMU/NPR April 24, 2015.