[Talk-us-massachusetts] Mapping stone walls

[Greg Troxel]

"Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I like to map stone walls. I wish they would render in the OSM default
> viewer to look more like a stone wall than a simple line.

I'm sure pretty much everybody wants the default to be different!

> One of the first mistakes I made years ago in OSM was to delete a wall  in
> a local woods. It took a while for me to realize that it was a wall and to
> re-create it.I
> I also like cellar holes and once read an article about all the discoveries
> that were being made using LIDAR.

That's a great point about LIDAR.  I have read some papers about finding
stone walls and other human creations from LIDAR, I think by a professor
in CT.  If there is open data and available software it may be possible
to work on this.