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Where do they get their ground truth from? They show a lake near me which no longer exists, as of a few years ago when the dam was removed.

(OSM gets this right, FWIW.)

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Lidar and some sort of algorithm probably. It seems to work ok but not perfectly and depending on your area the lidar point cloud could be almost 10 years old.

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