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The detail is impressive - it even has the little 12" wide, 6" deep creek that runs through my property and the neighbors seasonal puddle/not-even-a-pond that forms in his field after heavy rains.

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It also has a lot of features that dont exist and is missing several that do.

Pretty strange. It misses a pond that is completely obvious on the lidar elevation map.

I can confirm the peer message. It is missing much more significant water features (ponds/streams/marshes) on land I am intimately familiar with.

I've been looking around creeks in my neighborhood and this layer is substantially less accurate than the base layer it's displaying on top of.. Not sure what's going on with this data.

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