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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The survey points are based on IBC data (which they view as PD) and are supposed to be accurate within a few cm and the limits of NAD83 to WGS84 conversion (a few more cm).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve verified a few by the lower mainland with survey and against a few sources of accurate imagery and their data seems accurate within the limits of the imagery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can see a clearing along parts of the border in that area so it’s accurate to within 20 meters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I know that Washington State argued that they were not responsible for the border costs in Blaine because it was not part of the state since the state ended at the 49<sup>th</sup> parallel and the border is north of the 49<sup>th</sup> there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What I’ll do is go and eliminate duplicate border ways, like I did with the lower mainland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Clifford Snow [mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 17, 2012 4:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> talk-us<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841&lon=-121.743&zoom=13&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841&lon=-121.743&zoom=13&layers=M</a><br><br>It appears that the boarder sags to the south. I see tags man_made = survey_point which would indicate that the border placement is correct. Can anyone recommend how to validate the border placement?<br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Clifford<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I have promised to cut down on my swearing and drinking, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. Adapted from <i>The Lion</i> by Nelson DeMille<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-or-<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>