The fact that MAGIC is hard to access may not be a bad thing!
The lack of any health warning is extremely worrying.
As you say producing point data is not even progress being the simplest form of mapping. It is hardly getting to grips with the problem. What we need from EH is definitive boundary data. I know many HERs produce their own, I certainly do, but I have to continually point out that what is mapped is my best fit from small scale maps, never mind the setting!
EH have been offered boundary data by a number of SMRs, as yet no takers!
Thank you
David Evans
Environment and Conservation
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I went to visit the MAGIC website today. It is the first time I have
managed to get in. It does indeed contain Scheduled Monument locations.
These are shown as point data, inevitably, but are accessible on maps up to
1:1000 or more, where obviously a single point is not wildly helpful.
My concern is that the `Dataset information' for the SMs
(http://www.magic.gov.uk/datadoc/objecttype.asp?param1=3¶m2=Scheduled%20
Monuments¶m3=S¶m4=30) doesn't contain any health warning about the
fact that these points in fact represent features that have actual extent,
whose boundaries may in fact be several fields away from the point shown.
Has anyone discussed this with EH, please?
Frances Griffith
Devon CC
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those of Devon County Council
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