[Geysers] Mapping Help

Udo Freund udofreund317 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 20:06:20 PST 2013


How are you determining that RCN coordinates are off? I believe they use
data from GIS surveys that were done with much better quality GPS equipment
than anything available to the average consumer and perhaps even Google.

Thanks,
Udo Freund
On Nov 9, 2013 5:21 PM, "Will Boekel" <wolveslax65 at comcast.net> wrote:

>   Scott,
>
> Thanks for the advice about using the RCN data. I have been using that
> resource and it has been very helpful most of the time. However many of the
> coordinates in their database are a bit off and most of the pictures are of
> the geyser’s vent and not a location photo. In an area that has a few
> geysers all within a few feet of each other it is sometimes hard to figure
> out where the slightly off RCN marker belongs (I have had cases where the
> marker was pretty much equidistant from 3 holes and I had no idea which one
> it belonged to).
>
> Thank you for the help,
>
> Will Boekel
>
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