Your garden plan should outlive any one app
Landscapes take a decade to mature. The plan, the data and the tools that read them should be around that long too — so they’re open.
What’s open
- The planner — the web app and the iPhone/iPad app.
- The file format — an OpenPlan3D-compatible JSON with a documented
openlandscape3dblock. See the export format. - The plant catalog schema and the editorial catalog data, with per-fact provenance. See the catalog format.
- The rules — growth, seasons, design checks and schedules are written down as deterministic formulas that every client must match.
What isn’t automatically open
Third-party data keeps its own license. Some sources allow reuse with attribution; some commercial partner data (prices, availability) is licensed to us for display only. The data page lists each source’s terms.
Contribute
- Corrections to plant data — the most valuable contribution. Cite a source; reviewers check every change.
- Regional review — extension agents, native-plant societies and designers who can sign off records for a region.
- Code — issues and pull requests on GitHub.
Family
OpenLandscape3D shares its file format with OpenPlan3D (source), the open-source floor-plan editor, and follows the same approach as its sibling OpenKitchen3D.
Start designing in your browser
OpenLandscape3D is free and open source. Draw the site, place regional plants, and scrub through seasons and years before anything goes in the ground.