Now do Governor’s Island.
Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data
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Re: Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data
#22this is amazing - I'm a map geek and this stuff is catnip for me. I built a, for the time, very good data logging setup for my Jeep and mapped some trails[0] in 2001. Why? The maps provided by the USFS and the timber leaseholders were (and still are) wrong. I also made a point the first time I was in Europe of renting a car and driving to Baarle-Hertog[1] and walking to all of the enclaves, as well as enclaves within…
I do search and rescue, and it is amazing how out of date the USFS maps are. The "2016" revision shows roads that haven`t existed in decades. Even the MVUM map is wrong in similar ways, and it`s supposed to be the source of truth.
I seem to recall that Newt Gingrich & company were convinced that the market was being unfairly stymied in providing maps, so they worked pretty hard to choke off funding and narrow the mission of the USGS. There's been far too small a budget to keep maps even vaguely up to date and my understanding is that current Republican lawmakers are keeping this situation going for the same political reasons. The US is huge and underfunding the USGS means that every part of the government that works with them is getting bad data. I can't imagine the FS is having an easier time when the base maps are ancient.
Re: Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data
#23I'll just mention a side story for people's interest. You may notice that Ellis Island is connected to New Jersey by a small bridge, in the maps and satellite view. That bridge is a service bridge, but it isn't implausible that it could be adapted for use by pedestrians to visit Ellis Island. It might involve a few $m and an environmental review, but it has been considered before. However, despite periodic questionin…
On osm you can mark the kind of acces so you can indicate that is a service acces