Thanks Matthew, I've known of the oddity about those British Isles for some time now,
like since I used this latest Earth image, which is the strange thing about it. I
couldn't use the image as is when I first applied it, way off from what the supposed
mathematically correct latitudes and longitudes were showing. So there has been some
additional area (over ocean) added to improve upon the original. I don't know why
there
was ever any problem at all since I had thought the Earth image was a direct
representation of the real globe. Anyhow, all else appears to be aligning fairly well,
but England? It's like a terrible earthquake has shifted it toward the continent. I
haven't a good fix for this yet, I hate to think the coordinate numbers need a
subtraction by more than a degree and even worse the prospect of cut & pasting Great
Britain. Not a thing I like to do, playing god.
On this subject, anyone else seeing a significant shift in their map positions from
the
real?


Matthew Bennett wrote:
> 
> Great map - nice one :)
> 
> Though (heh, there's always one, sorry ;)
> ..the European map entries seem a little out of place?  There doesn't seem
> to be that many in, for example, the south-east of England (one of the most
> densely populated areas - including London, as well as where I live [and
> submitted]) doesn't seem to have anyone.  There does appear, however, to be
> at least a couple of people living 70 or so miles out at sea... one off the
> coast of Wales and another the coast of Ireland.
> 
> Now if the locations (for the UK at least) where shifted a little east and
> south - then not only would these people reach dry land again, but the
> south-east would look a bit more populated.  OK.. I know there population
> density doesn't necessarily have anything to do with where POV users
> "should" be.. but it just seemed to make a bit more sense when combined with
> the sea-people problem :)
> 
> OK.. so maybe I'm just being pedantic - either way, still a very well made
> and interesting map Bob :)
> 
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