[Taxacom] Impossible geocodes

[Fred Schueler]

Quoting "Fautin, Daphne G." <fautin at ku.edu>:

> All users should be aware, however, of the huge errors that can be  
> introduced by conversion.  Tony Rees made a presentation to OBIS  
> once about this (since marine data were nearly always DMS -- and now  
> DD -- because the ocean lacks landmarks; only nearshore records may  
> refer to landmarks), and showed that a conversion moved his home  
> from the nice bayside locality it occupies outside Hobart to the  
> hills well inland.  I'd bet he has it archived somewhere that you  
> could find to caution people.

* this may be because of unrecorded or uncompensated-for map datums.  
Around here the old NAD27 map datum gives a position 200m from the  
position given by the modern NAD83 or WGS84 datums.

fred.
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