[OSM-talk] Coastlines

[Dan Karran]

On 8/16/06, Steve Chilton <S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:

> What is missing is any inland detail to verify against. This does in
> fact point up the poor quality of this particular Google map data. See
> for example how the map shows the large offshore island as being part of
> the mainland, encompassing the smaller island on the way!

I was looking in Google Earth today and the coastal outlines in there
(presumably what that one in Google Maps is derived from) are off by
quite a distance to the NW compared to their imagery. The same also
seems to be true for other places in the UK that I checked.


Cheers,
Dan

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