Oops - need to move this town 2.5 metres to the left!

Ebenezer · Post by **Ebenezer** » 10 March 04 11:05 am

I read a great article in The Guardian yesterday: ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story ... 36,00.html ) Aparrently they discovered that British Ordinance Survey maps don't quite meet up, so they fudged some of them a bit. Noone seemed to mind, well until the advent of GPS that is.

e.g. Every building in Oswestry in Shropshire is out by 2.5 metres from where survey maps say they are supposed to be. Best to keep this in mind if you are using Ozi to plan some caching for your next visit to Shropshire.

They found that 220 towns were in the wrong place, so they have decided to bite the bullet and redo their entire map of Britain.

bigmickb · Post by **bigmickb** » 10 March 04 12:58 pm

On the same topic, I'm quite sure that when the NSW LPI was putting together their cadastral database years ago, someone drew the enitre town of Dubbo about 10 metres out of position! The error was only picked up some years after. No need to fret though. It's been fixed now. I'm sure there's more examples floating around out there too!

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 10 March 04 1:01 pm

Pesky! wrote:

We should claim it for the Geocachers of Australia,and start our own Country... Muha hahaha!

sounds good to me, how do we start has any one got the location?

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 10 March 04 1:06 pm

The Pacific Highway dissapears for a while north of Bulladelah and the streets down Huskisson area are all in the ocean according to Mapsend.

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 10 March 04 1:33 pm

Pesky! wrote:<<mis-quoted from a Mocchona coffee ad>>

" Shwopshear- how exciting!"

There's a suburb here called Bromley, and nobody knows why I find it funny to pwonounce it Bwomley...

It can be hard being an ex-pat.