Subject: google earth coord accuracy was Re: SV: SV: [BoundaryPoint] bjneng etc
Date: Oct 01, 2006 @ 15:31
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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ok thanx
& i have just belatedly done my own homework on this
too

& have indeed found google earth quite reliable &
sharp this time

say to within about 10 meters of a randomly chosen
geoposition at topozone

so any previous doubts i have expressed about google
earth geocoords may safely be retracted now
or at least reviewed case by case
even while i do maintain my several percent of
skepticism about google earth altitude values

which boils down to
among other things
& contrary to what i believed last night
when i blew off 3 of the 4 probable positions for
surinames 2 disputed tripoints as being too difficult
to venture a reliable guess at
beneath the cover of the diffused jungle canopy in the
satpic
that
we can indeed now return to bag these positions at
google earth if we so desire
at least to within whatever degree of accuracy we can
state their coords

inconsequential but fun

& in addition
since i have noticed the primary link in my earlier
suriname message broke up
i think i will stay on a bit longer here to clean that
up too
in case anyone would be interested to look into all 4
points
before continuing on to complete brazil at brgyve

ahh
it feels good to slow down

--- Jesper Nielsen/Borderbase <jesper@...>
wrote:

>
> Greenwich/geocord issue
>
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/30500/page/0/vc/1
>
> _____
>
> Fra: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com] På
> vegne af aletheia kallos
> Sendt: 1. oktober 2006 04:54
> Til: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Emne: Re: SV: [BoundaryPoint] bjneng
>
>
>
> oops
> right you are
>
> here it is again for a third try
> or rather attached at last for the first time
> i hope
>
> & for my part
> as i notice some of my lost messages are finally
> beginning to arrive
> & while still waiting for a few more that are still
> lost
> i am also unable to find your bfbjne pushpin guess
> you
> mention here
> http://groups.
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/20031>
> yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/20031
> as the link just leads to a blank page at borderbase
>
> nor btw do i grasp what you mean in that message
> about
> greenwich
>
> also
> in general
> i find the encarta maps at the tightest zoom level
> not
> much worse than the tactical pilotage charts youve
> been attaching
> from which i believe they are actually copied anyway
> so there is no need for you to keep going to the
> effort of scanning & attaching these
>
> & maybe we will get more accomplished if we slow
> down
> a little anyway
>
> --- Jesper Nielsen/Borderbase <jesper@nicolette.
> <mailto:jesper%40nicolette.dk> dk>
> wrote:
>
> > No attachment here.
> >
> > Jesper
> > --
> > Borderbase - your online guide to international
> > borders and tripoints
> > http://www.nicolett
> <http://www.nicolette.dk/borderbase> e.dk/borderbase
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > Fra: BoundaryPoint@
> <mailto:BoundaryPoint%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:BoundaryPoint@
> <mailto:BoundaryPoint%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com] På
> > vegne af aletheia kallos
> > Sendt: 24. september 2006 00:46
> > Til: boundarypoint@
> <mailto:boundarypoint%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com
> > Emne: [BoundaryPoint] bjneng
> >
> >
> >
> > yikes
> > the recent judicial change from median line to
> > thalweg
> >
> > http://groups.
> >
> <http://groups.
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19361>
> yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19361>
> > yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19361
> > seems easily perceptible in the attached satpic &
> tp
> > stretcher
> >
> > & here btw as with most all the african ones
> > for lack of better data & better mapping than
> > encarta
> > i think our usually 100 meter range must be scaled
> > back to say anywhere within 250 meters of the
> outer
> > little red correction square
> > just to be on the safe & honest side
> >
> > or in other words roughly a quarter of the
> distance
> > to
> > the other little red square in this case
> > in the erroneous yellow tee junction
> >
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