[talk-ph] New data import of San Carlos City, Negros

[maning sambale]

The SRTM coastline is much less accurate (we imported this years ago
because there was simply no data then).
We have a local mapper around San Carlos, I hope he/she can improve it.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I believe so, I specifically requested the San Carlos City to give me
>> the data under wgs84 proj and datum.  (But we can never be sure, since
>> I only received the shapefile data and no accompanying GIS metadata).
>
> Hmmm... If you check out Brgy. San Juan
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/34916659 ), you can easily see the
> offset from the SRTM-based coastline. You can see similar offsets in the
> mainland coastal barangays.
>
> Do we fix/resolve this or just leave it for the meantime?
>
> Eugene / seav
>



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