See
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Almien_coastlines_%28PGS%29">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Almien_coastlines_%28PGS%29</a>
for a comparison and discussion of the PGS data around Sydney Opera
House with that of a GPS tracklog of the Opera House perimeter.<br>
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Etienne<br><br>On 8/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">J.D. Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:jdsmobile@gmail.com">jdsmobile@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OJW skrev:<br>> There was a discussion on IRC about whether to upload PGS coastline<br>> data "as-is", or to try and correct the 10-30m shift that it appears to have<br>> relative to some other datasets.
<br>><br>> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PGS_errata">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PGS_errata</a><br>><br>> Any views on this? Shifting the data will require us to justify how we<br>
> calculated the error (e.g. several of the screenshots people have given me<br>> seem to be from google maps) and preferably we need a model for the error<br>> which is consistant worldwide.<br>><br>> Regards
<br>><br>> OJW<br>><br>> p.s. how's Sydney harbour correlating with other data?<br>><br>> p.p.s. did anyone email NGA to ask?<br><br>The Digital Globe Sat imagery from Googlemaps on the screendumps I<br>
posted for Copenhagen, has only been used to visualize the shift to show<br>it to others.. The actual shift was calculated from the municipality<br>geodata available from the KMS portal.<br><br>I downloaded the Sydney area, and made a gpx track from the coastline
<br>running from the Sydney Opera house and through three coves and inlets<br>to the east, and plotted it on the Digital Globe imagery. Looks like<br>it's shifted about 1 arcsecond north to the actual coastline. No E-W<br>
shift. But I have no actual geodata to verify the shift against, only<br>the Digital Globe imagery from Googlemaps.<br><br>J.D."Dutch" Schmidt<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list
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