I imported the county borders from the National Atlas site shapefiles. I tested a few counties before uploading them and didn't see this big of a difference. I suggest manually adjusting them for now.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > If you turn on the data layer it shows that the rendered tiles match the > underlying data in the OSM DB so it isn't an issue with the rendering. > The coastlines appear to be consistent with the tiger import and the > Yahoo imagery. It looks like the county data is at fault. > > It seems the county data came from: > http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/mld/countyp.html > > It looks like the points in the DB match the shapefile. The data > projection data they specify (NAD83/GRS80) seems to be an exact match > for WGS84. > > The error seems to be a shift of around 500m. The FAQ for the county > data has a section for data accuracy but the answer is blank. > >
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