[OSM-talk] Does this Antarctic airfield exist?

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 23 September 2018, Dave F wrote:
>
> Ever heard of this:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62799981

No, that's fake.

Even without up-to-date or higher resolution images you can rule this 
out because you can't build structures like this on a crevassed 
glacier:

https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=-63.786106&lat=-64.787188&zoom=13&num=2&mt0=bing-satellite&mt1=mapnik

But it is one of the more realistic fakes in polar regions i have seen - 
most are more obvious to spot, this one in relatively well thought 
through (including the name - after Carl Anton Larsen, who is the 
source of quite a few featutes in the Antarctic).

-- 
Christoph Hormann
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