ppm, post: 403313, member: 6808 wrote: My opinion is that we just need to not be so loose with the word centerline (or center line). As soon as any dedication happens it either: (1) moves the centerline, or (2) makes it no longer in the center.
As soon as any dedication happens it becomes the "old centerline", "the original centerline", the "former centerline", etc., etc.
I know I might get hammered here, but GIS professionals might be using the constructed object - centerline of a constructed roadway. I'll steal the definition of what NPS stores in our database as"...a GIS framework for organizing and managing the NPS road infrastructure using centerline spatial data by documenting data quality and lineage to facilitating data integration and sharing. The Standard on https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2223545&apos ;">IRMA . In my profession there are many of us with boots on the ground who will derive from GPS'ing, or digitizing the edge of a road and offsetting to 1/2 width of the road, edge of pavement, or whatever you guys tell us what the road edge is. I'll map the centerline if I can see double yellow lines, or a single dash line, but that's rare up here in AK. Centerline is not my favorite object to map at all. I despise mapping it because I can't see it normally, and any GIS guy who says they are mapping it precisely with digitizing the visible identifiable object on an ortho is Wagging.
Joel
Well I'm not going to resolve this boundary tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so vexed by contradictory plans,
I want to kill that S.O.B. at Caltrans,
Twenty-five to the left of me,
Thirty to the right, here I am,
Stuck with a center or two.
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Well, you started off with a centerline,
And you're proud that you kept it even
And the City they all come crawling,
Slap you on the back and say,
No; 25' to the left, 35 to the right....