osm....@0sg.net:
today, using the OSM slippy map, I came across a regular structure in
the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Map data and aerial images suggest it be
wood or stripes of wood. It looks like a barrier. Against what or
whom?
Or when was it grown?
Hi! Sadly there is no English version of that wiki page, but you can
read about that and other forest belts using google translation:
http://tinyurl.com/windforest . Those forest belts were planted in
Soviet era for protection against wind erosion, like Christoph has
guessed.
By the way, there are similar structures smaller in width around
Samara.
And there is a nice M-character at position 45.5352 N, 43.0252 E. It
has
no counterpart in aeral images, neither Google's nor Bing's, and
seems
to have been part of a bigger formation of alphabetic characters
become
landscape (just west of it remnants can be seen). Vandalism?
It is not vandalism, but selectively mapped farm lands. There are too
many farms, and a mapper chose to draw only those that form the letter.
There have been such cases in other resions, and mappers generally don't
object to such "art", considering anyone can map more farmlands to erase
a symbol.
IZ
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