[Talk-GB] Alignment at Point of Sleat

[Michael Booth]

In addition, the ESRI imagery doesn't have the distortion around the 
rocky cliffs and also seems to match Bing further inland where the path 
comes from, so that should help you.

On 12/08/2019 18:51, SK53 wrote:
> I had a quick look. The lighthouse as currently mapped sits fair & 
> square on the building outline on OS Streetview. As Grant (Firefishy) 
> rectified these tiles using the full OSGB-02 transform this is 
> probably the most accurately located layer. The coastline as mapped 
> accords with this (probably mapped from OSSV or pulled in from vector 
> data). Therefore I'd pretty much use the current mapping of the path & 
> the lighthouse to align other layers.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 18:38, Silent Spike <silentspike100 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:silentspike100 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Was recently at the Point of Sleat (Isle of Skye) and as part of
>     the Q3 project was going to add the solar panels there
>     (https://imgur.com/a/VAE5A0L) into OSM.
>
>     When I check out the area
>     (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/57.01809/-6.01793) I notice
>     I can also add some detail with the photographed railings so on,
>     however it's proven tricky to deduce the accurate alignment here.
>     Aerial imagery seems to show the path joining the base of the
>     lighthouse on the east rather than the west (as in reality) and
>     unfortunately I forgot to take a GPX trace while I was there.
>
>     Anyone more experienced with unclear alignment want to take a
>     crack at this one?
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