More LiDAR of ancestral sites with Fable 5.2

LiDAR map of Perry and Weaver sites.
Wsetmoreland County, Virginia

I am writing a book about my ancestors during the Revolutionary War and was getting a bit of writer's block. So without uploading the chapter on Fauquier County, Virginia, I asked Claude for some ideas. Claude noted that I had already done some LiDAR mapping in Westmoreland County, Virginia, but I had not in Fauquier (big DUH on my part!) so that's what prompted me to do the map of Fauquier. Well now that there's a more powerful version of Fable, what if I redid the Westmoreland County LiDAR map? I did not already have a platted out map so I fed land deeds from FamilySearch (including source citations) and historical maps into Claude so it could plat the land before accessing the USGS LiDAR maps. It took much longer today to generate the maps and I am currently at 21% of usage. I did crank it up to "Extra" level though. I also had to ask Claude to regenerate the map using black instead of cyan and make the print larger as it was barely readable. Again, the man-made points have to be verified on the ground. Interestingly, an article about just that appeared today in the news: Google researcher, Pietro Miotti was on vacation and wondered if LiDAR could be used to find ruins. He did just that and the lead is so promising, verification is planned. I 100% agree with his quote, "And at this point we should LiDAR the entire planet and let agents help us find the rest." Final note before you start, there's no one prompt to do this. As Steve Little said to Cousin Beverly last year, "Just have a conversation with the AI."