[OSM-newbies] projection question in Hawaii

[swanilli]

Maybe this is evidence of a wider problem with Pacific Islands that
are close to the International Dateline.

I have noticed that the location for the country tags for both Fiji
and Tonga are a long way from their true location.

For Fiji the country is located on OSM at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.08334&lon=-179.99&zoom=15. This
is probably a typing error (someone hit tie 2 key instead of 1) and
probably was meant to be
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-18.08334&lon=-179.99&zoom=15 which
would put it in the middle of the Fiji group of islands).

I would have fixed these errors except that I don't know how to move a country.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?



2009/4/2 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Miércoles, 1 de Abril de 2009, Randy George escribió:
>>  I also checked against Google Earth by locating  LL -155.136552, 19.68534
>> on OSM and on GE. GE shows this point at the road intersection of Akolea Rd
>> and Kaumana Dr, while in OSM it's shifted off the road?
>>
>> I assume I am doing something irregular. Are the OSM tiles
>> sphericalmercator EPSG:900913? Or some other EPSG?
>
> Yeah, OSM uses 900913 for rendering. Internally (for editing) it uses
> unprojected WGS84 (AKA EPSG:4326).
>
>
> Maybe the OSM data for that zone is just wrong (badly surveyed, maybe?) and
> needs to be fixed. Have you checked (with a GPS) that zone?
>
>
> Cheers,
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