Google Earth Community: Data Problems Compendium, v 1039, 19 Jun 2008

The attached file contains a single network link which enables you to download the latest version of the entire Compendium in a single file of about 1.3 megabytes.
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Google Earth is a wonderful "killer application." Its success depends on excellent data, software, and support. This BBS provides a low-cost Quality Assurance (QA) group of immense size, dedication, and energy. Very few companies evoke similar volunteer resources. This posting and its subpostings attempt to gather the current problems and insure they have been reported to Google.

Image Errors are problems which can or must be solved by manual intervention.
---- Camera artifacts
---- Duplicate Images
---- Latitude-Longitude
---- Misalignments
---- Missing Images
---- Needless Images
---- Orthorectification
---- Spurious Images
Image Blemishes are problems which require new imagery
---- Blue Bubbles minor
---- Clouds & Shadows serious
---- Contrails moderate
---- Discolorations moderate
---- Hairlines minor
---- Ice & Snow serious
---- Newton's Rings
---- Pock Marks moderate
---- Reflections minor
---- Shaky & Blurred serious
---- Smoke & Emissions serious
---- Squiggles minor
---- Swaths moderate
---- Underwater Buildings minor
---- Watermarks minor
Terrain
---- Below Sea Level
---- Polar Depressions
---- Gobal Summary
Place Names (Toponomy)
Borders & Coastlines
Roads
Other Layers
Censorship
Other Sources
---- Geonames
---- Panoramio
---- Wikipedia
---- (Panoramio and Wikipedia are included, but they are also available as separate download files)

Outlines, rather than pinpoints, have been provided so that the same problem need not be reported at each road disjuncture, etc. This has been done for such area-related problems as misalignments, pock marks, duplicate images, false mountains and trenches, missing terrain data, and censorship.

Special thanks to bebop, hale, Noisette, sasroodkapje, simon_a, and syzygy for their help in identifying problems, other folks' related postings, and evaluations of errors.

Notes:
---- Version 2 created 23 September 2006 to combine the subdivisions of Place Names and separate Geographic Features.
---- Version 3 created 17 October 2006 to expand Sapphire Terrain to Discolorations.
---- Version 4 created 2 January 2007 to restore False Trenches to Terrain.
---- Version 5 created 23 January 2007 for minor correction
---- Version 6 created 11 June 2007 to add Roads
---- Version 7 created 2 July 2007 simplified Places and Roads
---- Version 8 created 7 August 2007 combined the entire Compendium into one download file

Edited by PriceCollins (06/19/08 02:25 PM)

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