James Ewen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Corey Burger > <corey.burger-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. >> This one is very very easy. It is the 49th parallel from lake of the >> woods to the straight of georgia. > > No so little Grasshopper! > > It's close to the 49th parallel, but not quite. In a perfect world, it > would be the 49th parallel as per the agreements of 1818 and 1846, but > back when the line was physically laid out, the technology was not > quite sub-centimeter accuracy. > > My family wasn't exactly that accurate with their homesteading either, > hence the split with half my family becoming American citizens, and > the other staying on the good side of the line...
I think I corrected myself later when I realized that "Hey, better check that with what's on the ground," since there is OAM data (if not something better; it sucks that OAM seems to be more or less giving up) of a reasonable enough resolution that one should be able to line up the OSM data with reality.
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