Transcription of Map Accuracy Standards - USGS
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Map Accuracy Standards As applied to the USGS positions from aerial photographs. Field Map Accuracy quadrangle topographic map, the hori- survey methods are the only tests An inaccurate map is not a reliable map. zontal Accuracy standard requires that the accepted for official Accuracy testing. X may mark the spot where the trea- positions of 90 percent of all points Positions must be obtained by surveys of sure is buried, but unless the seeker can tested must be accurate within 1/50th of a higher Accuracy . Vertical tests are run locate X in relation to known land- an inch ( centimeters) on the map.
(or center points of small buildings). In general, what is well-defined will also be determined by what is plottable on the scale of the map with-in 1/100 inch. Thus, while the intersec-tion of two roads or property lines meeting at right angles would come within a sensible interpretation, identi-fication of the intersection of such lines ...
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