Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/science/archaeology-lidar-maya.html
But #lidar maps are expensive. Takeshi Inomata, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, recently spent $62,000 on a map that covered 35 square miles, and even was deeply discounted. So he was thrilled last year when he made a major discovery using a lidar map he had found online, in the #public_domain, entirely for free.
