As I can see you cannot trust Google Earth 100% when it comes to positions
and borders.

0 doesn't even hit Greenwich Observatory (http://www.mykreeve.net/london/greenwich/royal_observatory)

Jesper

>-- Original Message --
>To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>From: "Roger McCutcheon" <rogerdwmac@...>
>Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:02:13 +0100
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Four pointer
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>The latitude of that particular point was presumably intended at the time

to be dead on 37 degrees North, but when I zoom in as closely as possible
on the Google Earth image, which presumably comes from the Geo Positioning
Satellite, it is shown to be

>hree whole seconds south of that line, or 1/1200 of a degree of latitude.

However I think that, given the relatively primitive methods available to
the contemporary surveyors, they should perhaps be allowed some little degree
of latitude(!): I would no

> like to see that causing any territorial wars! Maybe I should not even

have mentioned it! Roger & out.