Berkshire garden library · Massachusetts

Garden Planning Studio

Choose a parcel-mapped public-garden reference, save versions, or create a garden of your own.

Data & sources

The library includes Berkshire Botanical Garden, The Mount, Naumkeag, and Ashintully. Each now has a matched MassGIS parcel. Berkshire Botanical Garden has an aerial-interpreted interior; the other garden layouts remain clearly labeled diagrammatic references rather than surveyed features.

Shared parcel, flower, and source records live in the project’s versioned JSON/GeoJSON catalog. The active garden’s information card opens the local source record first and retains the authoritative original as a secondary link. Your working gardens and named versions stay in this browser unless exported, and edits do not overwrite the shared catalog. Identifying assessor fields are never retained.

The 3D preview also has a project-owned catalog of lightweight CC0 GLBs. Models are fetched only when a visible placement can use them; procedural plants remain the fallback. Generic berry and flower assets are visual analogues, not species-identification evidence.

Quaternius crops ↗ Model source record ↗ CC0 1.0 ↗

Parcel-mapped garden library

Four references, distinct layout confidence

Project-owned public data

A shared catalog beneath each browser workspace

The catalog currently exposes gardens, flower references, source records, and redistributable 3D models. It is checked in, versioned, and deployable as inexpensive cacheable JSON and GLB.

1 · Maintain One cited source of truth

Garden GeoJSON, flower conditions, model provenance and checksums, and source lineage belong to the project. Browser plans are editable overlays, not the database.

2 · Query Stable collection and item shapes

RFC 7946 FeatureCollections, JSON Schema 2020-12, and OGC API Features-style bbox, ID, property, text, and paging queries form the v1 contract.

3 · Deliver Small files and bounded maps

Versioned JSON and spatial derivatives can be cached at the edge. Aerials arrive as visible tiles; statewide source archives are never sent to the browser.

Current boundary: this is a standards-aligned static query profile, not a claim of full OGC HTTP conformance. A server can later implement the same response contract without migrating the data model. The private Massachusetts archive contains 370 objects / GB; FEMA, BioMap, and open-space archives remain source material rather than browser payloads. See the MassGIS parcel documentation ↗ and 2025 aerial documentation ↗.