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Holy hell why is West Virginia's OpenStreetMap land cover data so comprehensive compared to its neighbors? This is insane. The rest of the U.S. has pretty poor land cover coverage, but not this state.

16/7/26, 6:21 am1 repost4 likes

the christopher gs

@christophergs.bsky.social

16 July

You can thank (mostly) ottwiz who made it their personal project over 5 years to map tree coverage data inyo OpenStreetMap from aerial imagery www.openstreetmap.org/user/ottwiz/...

openstreetmap.orgMapping forest landcover for West Virginia in 5 yearsHi OSM folks,

Very cool :3

@burakkorii.bsky.social

18 July

that's real commitment!

Duskfall

@duskfall.dev

18 July

Especially for a single contributor. Makes me wonder just how far I could go as a mapper if I was to put the effort into mapping something that extensively too.

Duskfall

@duskfall.dev

16 July

I genuinely wonder why it's so good there. Maybe their state government collects this info and more readily makes it public? Maybe they just have a very dedicated mapping community? I have no idea.