[talk-au] New Caledonia slips

[Liz]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is marked
> as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish!
> It's at zoom levels 2 to 6:
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.7&lon=165.3&zoom=5&layers=B000FTF
>
> There's a few other weird coastline renderings in that view that someone
> might want to investigate, too.
>
> I poked around in the data a bit to see if something looked amiss. It's
> probably more efficient if someone who knows what they are looking for
> checks it out.
>
> There's also "Coral Sea Islands" at levels 5 and 6. These are a
> territory of Australia (correctly placed, it seems) that almost no-one
> knows about. Perhaps they have been given too high an administrative
> level? Then again, being unknown shouldn't count against them. There's
> potential to confuse some users. I certainly did a double-take.
>
> Cheers
>
New Caledonia has bee there for a couple of months, I'm sure it would like to 
go home.
Also on Cocos (Keeling) Islands there is a runway, but alas, no land, so if 
someone too hot to go out would like to put some land in there it would be 
excellent (12 12 N 96 54 E according to my atlas)
We could record the islands before global warming drowns them (Tuvalu is 
already recorded, on that theme).