On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote: > Greetings > > I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is marked > as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish! > It's at zoom levels 2 to 6: > > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.7&lon=165.3&zoom=5&layers=B000FTF > > There's a few other weird coastline renderings in that view that someone > might want to investigate, too. > > I poked around in the data a bit to see if something looked amiss. It's > probably more efficient if someone who knows what they are looking for > checks it out. > > There's also "Coral Sea Islands" at levels 5 and 6. These are a > territory of Australia (correctly placed, it seems) that almost no-one > knows about. Perhaps they have been given too high an administrative > level? Then again, being unknown shouldn't count against them. There's > potential to confuse some users. I certainly did a double-take. > > Cheers > New Caledonia has bee there for a couple of months, I'm sure it would like to go home. Also on Cocos (Keeling) Islands there is a runway, but alas, no land, so if someone too hot to go out would like to put some land in there it would be excellent (12 12 N 96 54 E according to my atlas) We could record the islands before global warming drowns them (Tuvalu is already recorded, on that theme).
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