Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Josh Doe wrote: > Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much > better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline > that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. How are you determinin

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Adam Schreiber
Josh, As the person that imported the NHD shoreline for most of the southern east coast, I can tell you that I mainly tried to fix directional errors and obvious missing features. Correcting to imagery was beyond the scope of the effort as that was back when we were just trying to get something w

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread TC Haddad
As with everything, proceed with caution. The metadata for that layer states: "These data were automated to provide a suitable geographic information system (GIS) data layer depicting the historical shoreline for the United States. These data are derived from shoreline data that were produced by t

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/13/2011 2:47 PM, Josh Doe wrote: Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. Unless there are better sources, I'll p

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Doe
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Josh Doe wrote: > >> Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much >> better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline >> that was imported, at least f

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Josh Doe wrote: > Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much > better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline > that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. > Unless there are be

[Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

2011-07-13 Thread Josh Doe
Has anyone looked at the NOAA Composite Shoreline? It seems to have much better accuracy (as in orders of magnitude better) than the PGS shoreline that was imported, at least for the small portion I checked in Virginia. Unless there are better sources, I'll probably use this to fixup Virginia's coa

[Talk-us] Meeting of Chattanooga TN OSM group July 21 2011

2011-07-13 Thread Randal Hale
Really I think this is probably a moot point - since I'm the only one in the area on Talk-US.but hey - you never know. Facebook Announcement: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219131011462405 Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Openstreetmap/Chattanooga-TN/289571/?a=bn6_l1 (and I'm not sure