Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
Gerry,
Good morning!
I realize that wholeheartedly, but to have this big of a screwup....oh,
wait, this is the Federal Government....
Aha! Your coffee kicked in? What hardware are you using for your
campground survey? I can tell you stories about those from several
years ago, when folks were trying to resolve objects (e.g., a picnic
table) that was smaller than their uncorrected L1 error budget...
gerry
Gerry Creager wrote:
Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
I admit that one point does not make a trend but what I found was
eyeopening.
I wanted just Fond du Lac county in Wisconsin to use as a base map
for mapping project that I am working on ( a Boy Scout campground). I
pulled in my files into QGIS and then brought in
"fe_2007_55039_edges". I did not get Fond du Lac County but a huge
overview of north Illinois, Indiana and SE Michigan. OUCH!!!
I even went and downloaded a virgin fileset and got the same results
(see picture).
55039.png
This is not good. I plan on sending on a comment to the Census Bureau.
So, let the user beware - YMMV.
Unfortunately, this warning has always been necessary with TIGER
files. They're not the best GIS data source. They're just available
and free.
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