Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Andy Townsend
On 14/12/2020 19:21, Edward Bainton wrote: Glad I'm not going mad. Does it say anything useful or interesting that the "GPS trace" is a few metres away from the boundary as marked on the map? (Sorry if this has been answered recently: there was extensive discussion on alignment not long ago,

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Chris Hodges
Either a datum mix-up or different roundings used in the constants for the back-and-forth conversion.  Either way that's not a real trace On 14/12/2020 19:33, Colin Smale wrote: On 2020-12-14 20:21, Edward Bainton wrote: With plenty of portages... Glad I'm not going mad. Does it say

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-12-14 20:21, Edward Bainton wrote: > With plenty of portages... > > Glad I'm not going mad. Does it say anything useful or interesting that the > "GPS trace" is a few metres away from the boundary as marked on the map? > (Sorry if this has been answered recently: there was extensive

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Edward Bainton
With plenty of portages... Glad I'm not going mad. Does it say anything useful or interesting that the "GPS trace" is a few metres away from the boundary as marked on the map? (Sorry if this has been answered recently: there was extensive discussion on alignment not long ago, but too technical

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Mark Goodge
On 14/12/2020 17:49, Martin Wynne wrote: On 14/12/2020 17:27, Edward Bainton wrote: Any thoughts on why when I enable "public GPS traces" in iD, I get one that near enough exactly tracks the LA boundary South Kesteven:Peterborough (at Deeping St James)? Someone took their tracker with

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Martin Wynne
On 14/12/2020 17:27, Edward Bainton wrote: Any thoughts on why when I enable "public GPS traces" in iD, I get one that near enough exactly tracks the LA boundary South Kesteven:Peterborough (at Deeping St James)? Someone took their tracker with them when "Beating the Bounds"?

Re: [Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Colin Smale
I suspect someone has uploaded a GPX version of the boundary from OS Boundary-Line. It doesn't look like an actual trace from a GPS receiver. On 2020-12-14 18:27, Edward Bainton wrote: > Any thoughts on why when I enable "public GPS traces" in iD, I get one that > near enough exactly tracks

[Talk-GB] "GPS trace" tracking county boundary

2020-12-14 Thread Edward Bainton
Any thoughts on why when I enable "public GPS traces" in iD, I get one that near enough exactly tracks the LA boundary South Kesteven:Peterborough (at Deeping St James)? See https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.6543/-0.2655=G It seems unlikey that it really is a GPS trace - or is it?