On 3/25/2011 4:17 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Nathan Edgars II<[email protected]> wrote:
User ToeBee has, in several changesets in February, aligned state borders to
exact lat/long. The problem is that this is not how the borders are defined;
instead they are based on work that the 19th century surveyors did with the
tools they had. Two obvious examples follow:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/158796015/history is the famous
"Four Corners":
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705298412/Four-Corners-marker-212-miles-off-Too-late.html
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/158790476/history is the northwest
corner of Colorado, which is also marked by a large monument, visible on
aerials.
I am not saying my edit was perfect. But the position of the nodes
before my edit was even further off than it is now. The northwest node
is now 10 meters straight south of the monument where it was over 1km
east. The southwest node was off by 1km as well and is now about 400
meters west.
You know, you're actually correct. TechLady screwed it up in the first
place; prior to her edits, it was right on the Four Corners monument. I
apologize for assigning all the blame to you.
So now the problem is worse: two people's edits need to be reverted. You
tried to fix it, so again I'm sorry for coming down on you.
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