[Talk-us-massachusetts] meadow & woods?

[Andy Anderson]

On Nov 3, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> There is also how to represent stone walls, but OSM has barrier=wall,
> and I have been adding those from imagery and from being on the ground.
> There is some leaf-off imagery (USGS large scale) which is useful for
> this; bing tends to be leaf-on.  (I have also heard of scholarly papers
> about using lidar to find walls and foundations, but not really read
> them or tried it yet.)

http://stonewall.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/534/2014/03/Johnson-and-Ouimet-2014-Rediscovering-the-lost-archaeological-landscape-of-southern-New-England-using-airborne-LiDAR.pdf

> So grassland is kind of like meadow, but with fewer shrubs, and more
> than lawn?

Meadow can sometimes refer to low-lying land that is periodically flooded and so somewhat treeless.

— Andy
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