I noticed the same on the southern coast of Haiti as well (I have been doing 
some mapping in and around Jacmel), with some oddities where features and ocean 
collide, with the ocean being too far inland - and editing of the coastline 
layer does not appear to be reflected in rendering.


David G. Smith PE PLS
Synergist Technology Group, Inc.
570.280.6763


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On 
Behalf Of John F. Eldredge
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:52 AM
To: ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen; 
talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org; OpenStreetMap talk mailing list
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Intriguing artifacts in GeoEye data

If only man-made artifacts are displaced, but not the terrain, that must be a 
mapping error.  An actual earthquake land-shift would have displaced the 
terrain, and moved buildings and other artifacts along with the land.

--
John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

-----Original Message-----
From: "ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen" <g.grem...@cetest.nl>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:42:03
To: openstreetmap<talk@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [OSM-talk] Intriguing artifacts in GeoEye data

If you look at the coast of Haiti, west of port-au-prince some strange 
artifacts are shown on a lot of places where building and beach clubs (I 
presume) touch the coast line.

Look here for example:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=18.5474002361298&lon=-72.5111174583435&zoom=15

and enable the GeoEye data.

Under the sea level traces of the coastal buildings are seen. 

It seems as if the whole of Haiti coastline slided 50 meters southwards due to 
the quake.

It's strange however, that only human constructions leave traces, and this 
makes this theory less probable.  

Any thoughts ???



Gert Gremmen
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