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A tall tree on my street was lost last year: it shows the shadow for it even though it’s not on the satellite image. Now I wonder where it gets the tree data fr
by joshspankit 2y ago
A tall tree on my street was lost last year: it shows the shadow for it even though it’s not on the satellite image. Now I wonder where it gets the tree data from.
- kylecazar 2y agoSimilar situation here with a patch of trees. From the About: "The shadows displayed by default are estimates gathered through indirect means like crowd sourcing and low resolution data." Not sure what low resolution data they are using for the trees (I can't imagine mine were crowdsourced given I'm the only house around). Probably not worth it for me but apparently the premium version has more accurate/current data.
- sandos 2y agoIt says it is using openstreetmap, so you can probably edit that tree if its added to OSM.
- joshspankit 2y agoAfter reading this I went through all the OSM datasets I could see (including double-checking the layers) and none of them showed the tree. Now I’m even more curious.
- Workaccount2 2y agoIt's coming from public LIDAR data, which captures both trees and the ground below them (and is able to tell which is which).
- joshspankit 2y agoCan you point to which LIDAR dataset? I did not see any openstreetmap datasets with the tree present.