Using 1-meter LiDAR-derived DEM data from USGS, I was able to generate very accurate polygons for thousands of lakes in the Wind River Range which were missing from OSM or were only coarsely mapped. In this talk I’ll show the technical approach image processing techniques I used to create the data, and the lessons I learned from carefully merging the results into OSM.
Speaker
Jake Low
Jake is a software developer and mapmaker based in Seattle, Washington. He currently works at OpenStreetMap US, supporting MapRoulette, OSMCha, and other community tools. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and mapping trails in OSM.
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