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A comment on Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle. Parent comment

Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle by nitrogen on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:35PM (#16299809)
Can SLAM be applied in this case?
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Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle by zo1 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:28AM (#16302043)
It definitely can, though accuracy would always be a big concern.

IIRC, the Google self-driving car used LIDAR. Though their localization algorithms included many sensors, with the LIDAR data was just one of them.

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