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  • 2016-06-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Photograph Show a Misaligned Bridge? (en)
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  • A photograph purportedly showing a misaligned bridge is frequently shared via blogs and social media as a picture of one of the worst construction mistakes of all-time: While the above-quoted article correctly cited a caption that accompanied the image on the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that caption has been misinterpreted by some readers who believed it to document the occurrence of a misaligned bridge mishap. But Bobbi Simmons of NOAA's National Geodetic Survey explained that this image was actually an illustration created by the Zurich American Insurance Company and not a photograph of an actual bridge under construction: This image has been online since at least 2007, when it was used by the NOAA in an article about the Transcontinental Traverse as part of the organization's 200th anniversary. NOAA explained that while angles can be accurately determined, measuring long distances occasionally leads to mistakes: (en)
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