[OSM-talk] Mount Obama (revisited)

[Steve Chilton]

It would seem that snurl.com short URLs are not copy-and-pasteable -
well not from a tweet.
So if interested here is the message with long URLs (thanks to those
that pointed it out to me).
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Antigua and Barbuda today renames Boggy Peak to Mount Obama
http://repeatingislands.com/2009/05/31/boggy-peak-to-become-mount-obama-
on-august-4th/
So the OSM map shows it on change day
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=17.0396

Easy comparison target: Google has Boggy Peak (as was) in wrong place
http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=13&lat=17.05235&lon=-61.86419&layers=000B00
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See also Bolans (spelt wrong), Jennings and Ebenezer well out of place,
and the road nr Old Road settlement taking completely fictitious line in
a couple of places.

And don't get me started on Yahoo maps
http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=13&lat=17.08304&lon=-61.80496&layers=0000B0
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Use transparency slider and zoom tools for full effect. Check SE of
Island which appears to have no roads in it at all and the road detail
in the north of the island.

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Manager of e-Learning Academic Development
Centre for Educational Technology
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/study/elearning/chiltons.asp

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