[talk-ph] Ifugao's southeastern border

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 14:06:06 GMT 2011


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ifugao's southeastern border looks like it should follow Magat River
> and it is currently placed about 1 km east of the river:
> http://osm.org/go/4z1w8Lq--
>
> The river was presumably traced from Landsat which may be off by up to
> 50 meters.
>
> The borders were taken from NAMRIA topomaps and I have no idea if
> these are properly rectified.
I do think the border was wrong and should fit the river.

> I'm inclined to delete the border along this part and transfer the
> tags to the corresponding parts of the river.

I suggest we separate rivers from admin borders in this case, rivers
change its course through time:

http://www.geo-tag.info/2011/01/20/map-of-ancient-courses-of-the-mississippi-river/

> What do you guys think?
>
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