+Jouko Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 I visited Prague in the Czech Republic on my summer holiday and searched some geocaches. I had printed some MapQuest maps to help my walking between the caches. I noticed that on those printouts the star indicating the location of the cache is about 500 meters to the west (and a little bit to the south) from the real location! Anybody knows the reason? Is there same kind of fault in other countries? At least the maps of Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland seem to be OK. Quote Link to comment
+Toniczech Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 You are right. There is a difference between the position of a star and real location of a cache (at least in Prague). I never noticed this fault before (because I don't use MapQuest when searching for caches in my home country). But in Austria is MapQuest OK (in my experience). I don't know exact reason of this difference - maybe different datum of map source? For example military maps of Czech Republic use datum S 1942, but in such case values of difference would be N-S 2320 m, W-E 180 m. Quote Link to comment
+Saman Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 For anyone who wants to do some geocaching in Czech Republic - you are welcome to use the services of www.geocaching.cz - also available in English - there is an opportunity to see the very detailed areas on the maps Quote Link to comment
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