[Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Thread Clifford Snow
I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841lon=-121.743zoom=13layers=M It appears that the boarder sags to the south. I see tags man_made = survey_point which would

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/17/12 7:48 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841lon=-121.743zoom=13layers=M It appears that the boarder sags to the south. I

[Talk-us] OSM US board nominations vote impending

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Welty
we are currently reviewing voting procedures with an eye towards finalizing the process and timeline in the next day or two. we anticipate opening nominations as soon as the procedures are published, aiming to hold a vote in conjunction with SOTM US. if you are interested in running and/or

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Norman
The survey points are based on IBC data (which they view as PD) and are supposed to be accurate within a few cm and the limits of NAD83 to WGS84 conversion (a few more cm). I've verified a few by the lower mainland with survey and against a few sources of accurate imagery and their data seems

Re: [Talk-us] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Thread John Firebaugh
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: I've been doing some work in the North Cascades National Park. It appears that the border between the US and Canada is wrong. Look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9841lon=-121.743zoom=13layers=M It appears

Re: [Talk-us] [Talk-ca] US-Canada Border between BC and Washington State

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Norman
I'm uploading a changeset that should fix most of the border problems. Some tagging problems may remain with the parks but it shouldn't be necessary to adjust the geometry. I did note that some of the US parks to the south need to be turned into boundary relations and have their ways