On 1/23/03 at 4:10 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Dave,
>
>> >are available) rivers will flow downhill etc.
>
>Sorry. Uphill. You guessed it ;-)

Sorry - couldn't resist :-)

>That's well possible. That artifact is obviously not present in the
>original
>data. It's just that all the stuff like rivers, roads etc. is
>systematically
>shifted by 200 m or so. Quite annoying in narrow canyons. BTW, the Grand
>Canyon and otehr US canyons do not suffer from this but, as I said,
several
>German valleys do.

Hmm, maybe they've got their co-ordinate systems mixed up?  From memory
(which I'm not trusting any more!), I seem to recall that a typical
difference between OSGB36 lat & lon and WGS84 lat & lon is in the order of
200m.  Perhaps something along those lines has happened with their data
somewhere. 

Cheers - Dave


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