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.
Start here: tap Photograph a tree and photograph a tree on your street or in a park, with no people in the picture. No sign-in needed.
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How to use KYTE
Photograph the whole tree first, then a close photo of a few leaves still on it, if you can reach them; the bark helps too. On a later visit, stand in the same place, so the two photos can be compared.
Find lists interesting trees near you: notable, NZ Tree Register, big and few on record. Walk there points the way, and the camera labels the trees so you can tell which one it is.
Saved visits work offline. The tree records for places you have already looked at, and Find’s lists once opened, 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. The photos of the tree you send to ALTO (the whole tree, its leaves, flowers and fruit) also go to Pl@ntNet, which suggests a species to you and the reviewer.
Missions near you
Trees near here that ALTO needs a photo of. Your location stays on this phone; the map’s aerial photos come from Esri. How it works ↗
Where are you?
Stay on footpaths, off private land and graves, and watch for traffic. Kauri are never missions.
All missions, including Species maxima: measure the girth
Find a tree
Tree numbers from ALTO (like TSE4N1JP) and NZ Tree Register numbers (like AR/0177) work too.
Interesting trees near you
Picks the most interesting tree on the list within about 10 minutes’ walk.
Only show:
The lists Find opens on and the species search hold street and park trees only. Kauri are left out, and so is every tree within 50 m of one, so that no one is sent to walk their roots. A tree number finds any ALTO tree, but KYTE offers a walk only to a tree on these lists, and Take me to one picks only from them.
- Species from Auckland Council’s tree records and the Notable Trees schedule, through ALTO. Heights from Auckland’s 2024 LiDAR. ALTO sources and credits ↗
KYTE can’t see where you are, so this tree is near the middle of the map. The map shows where it is.
This tree may stand on private land. Look from the street or a public place, and ask before going in.
Is this the tree?
The record may be a few metres out, or the tree may have gone.
Trees around you
No tree with a species on record close enough to list. Walk closer, or photograph the tree and choose it on the map.
Line the labels up with the trees
A notable tree can stand on private land. Look from the street or a public place, and ask before going in.
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.
No tree from this search where you tapped.
Tap your tree on the map to choose it, or tap open ground to search from there.
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.
Your photos & location ()
Photo location, direction & capture details
Your tree
Check this is your tree, then tap Save this visit. Everything else is optional.
Add another photo optional
Pl@ntNet names a tree best from a close photo of a few leaves still on it, if you can reach them.
About this tree in ALTO
Your mission