Talk:Jökulsárlón

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[edit] Wrong position in Google Earth

Hello, I noticed a recent "cloud clearing" in GE Icelad coverage, resulting in the violet sphere (wikipedia layer) for this article being positioned really over a lake. But as far as I can tell the position is definitely wrong - the shape is far different from what I remember from my visit of Jokulsarlon an it is way too far inland (the real Jokulsarlon is 100 m from the ocean), the visitor center also should be at least noticeable. Also there is another violet point, pointing to Breidarlon in the same lake. Many people are confused in this area - see the panoramio layer with the anybody wildly guessing around, maybe wiki could help point this down, but i have no idea how is this technically done (how is the GE position assigned to a wiki article), but I am sure sombody alse has. greetings, Jan Verfl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.245.80.143 (talk) 12:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Commenting myself: in the "geographic web" GE layer there is an UNEP icon nearby, telling a story about the very glacier responsible for the Jokulsarlon lake - enabling this image to overlay the GE display (in the pop-up) very clearly show the true Jokursarlon in all its glory, justifying my previous claim about the current article position beiing slightly (8 km) off. Jan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.245.80.143 (talk) 12:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I strongly support the opinion that the geotags are wrongly choosen because the real location is covered in clouds. I tried to geotag one of my images and I would like you to have a look at this Google-Maps Link. Its far from an accurate location but I asked the teacher of my photographers cource I took in Winter 2003 and he definitely has GPS coordinates - If he finds the time to sort this out we might become even better. Andreas Tille (talk) 15:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)