Errors have been discovered in the Land Study Bureau (LSB) GIS layer when compared to the original hardcopy maps. The most notable errors were on Oahu, and most of the Oahu errors have been corrected. Some small errors may remain, due to various factors such as difficulties georectifying the source maps, resulting in the need to interpolate and interpret some of the line work. Errors in the data for the remaining islands have not yet been corrected. The Office of Planning is in the process of identifying those errors and re-digitizing the data from the hardcopy LSB map books for those islands. Please use the LSB data for illustrative purposes only, particularly on the neighbor islands, and refer to the original Land Study Bureau map books for definitive land classifications. An example of the number and types of errors that have been found to date is shown in the graphic below - although the graphic represents errors found (and since corrected) on Oahu, similar errors exist in the data for the remaining islands. For current status and methodology used, please see http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis/data/lsb.pdf.
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