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A global, public domain map dataset available at three scales and featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data.
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Accuracy of the 10m boundary lines #896

Closed rigperro closed 6 months ago

rigperro commented 7 months ago

Hey,

Am I doing something wrong or is this the expected accuracy of the boundary lines?

In the first picture, I have placed the 10m boundary lines on top of openstreetmap in QGIS. The thin gray line is the 10m boundary line. The picture is of the border between northern Finland and Norway. The border is actually the purple line along the river but the NE data would place the Finnish city of Karigasniemi on the other side of the border.

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There are also some other peculiarities, like the border ending on land between Russia and Finland.

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