Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction

[Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2012-12-18 Thread Tom Taylor
I've been continuing to work on validation errors in the Ottawa area. One complaint was of buildings projecting into the Ottawa River on the west side of the Portage Bridge, by the dam between the Ottawa side of the river and Victoria Island. When I look, the buildings (source CanVec 6.0) are

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2012-12-18 Thread William Rieck
There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction from your primary source (a survey), that aligns with traces (absolute