Cornell Plantations is a museum of living plants and natural history resources, encompassing the arboretum, botanical garden, and natural areas of Cornell University. Plantations covers nearly 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares), including woodlands, gorges, and lakeside trails bordering the campus.

The F.R. Newman Arboretum specializes in native and exotic woody plants, including maples, oaks, dogwoods, and viburnums. The botanical garden features herbs for cutting and drying, garden perennials, heritage and modern vegetables, international crops and weeds, rock garden plants, peonies, groundcovers, and plants native to the Cayuga Lake basin.

Initial mapping work is focussed on the Arboretum, using the BG-Map Total Station Interface

Mount Auburn Cemetery is both an historic cemetery and a beautiful public garden. Founded in 1831 by members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, it is considered the first "garden cemetery", a tradition which later led to the development of America's public parks.

The cemetery is spread over 174 acres (70 hectares) serviced by more than 10 miles (17 km) of roads and numerous well kept paths. Buried here are more than 80,000 persons, including many notables. The plant collections include more than 4,000 native and introduced trees, representing over 580 taxa as well as numerous shrubs and groundcovers, making the Cemetery an arboretum of national importance.

BG-Map was installed using a basemap created by combining an aerial survey with existing maps of below ground burial plots. BG-Map will be initially be used for documenting the plant collections. Additional applications of BG-Map for historical interpretation and cemetery operations are also being investigated. (See BG-Map Goes Underground).

The New York Botanical Garden is located in the Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City. It occupies 250 acres (100 hectares), including dramatic rock outcroppings, wetlands, ponds, a cascading waterfall, and a rare 40 acre (16 hectare) tract of virgin forest - right in the heart of one of the world's largest cities! Among the horticultural attractions are 16 specialty gardens, including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, the T.H. Everett Rock Garden, and the Jane Watson Irwin Perennial Garden, as well as outstanding collections of daylilies, orchids, hardy ferns, flowering trees, conifers, and pines.

Perhaps the most outstanding feature is the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a beautiful Victorian glass house, which has housed the NYBG's distinguished tropical and desert plant collections since 1902. The conservatory is currently undergoing a complete restoration.

To create the NYBG's base map, numerous disparate maps and surveys are being adapted and consolidated, under a uniform grid and coordinate system, tied to the "East Bronx Grid". Mapping of both the outdoor and conservatory collections is planned. Outdoor plantings will be mapped using the BG-Map Total Station Interface.

Updated November 13, 2003
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