I wonder if the scope and geographical spread of iRecord has changed to include a huge area, and not just the land area of the UK and Ireland and the seas around?
If you go to Explore All records, there are now mapped data from west of the USA to India, from far north down to West Africa. These are both from the sea and from land.
Please can anyone explain what is going on?
Thank you
My understanding is that the UK grid reference system can in principle specify a point anywhere on the planet. It is properly defined for the UK and Northern Ireland but a GIS system will ormally accept any two letters plus and even number of digits and give you a location somewhere. I just took the GR of my house and changed a leading S to an A. That is the edge of Crater Lake in Oregon. Generally, mistype a GR and you can end up anywhere. But there is a serious question. Why is iRecord not filtering these out? If it is unable to map a GR to a VC then the recorder should be notified and asked to correct the record.