SGO Stands by its Map

By Dian Woodhouse

Smart Growth is standing behind its map:

Smart Growth Ogden stands by its map and the accompanying text, which in all material aspects accurately represent the data and descriptions provided by the city itself. The map was produced from vector data provided by the Ogden City GIS Department on April 21. An image created from the same vector data is still posted on the city's web site... The locations of the features depicted--trails, roads, building sites, and golf course fairways--were not altered by Smart Growth Ogden in any way. All of the conclusions drawn in the text that accompanies our map follow from the data itself; for example, the city's data shows trails in the completed project crossing roads in more than 10 locations, golf holes in 8 locations, and the driving range. If the data is inaccurate then the city, not Smart Growth Ogden, is at fault.

There are also side by side images of the city's map and the Smart Growth map so we can compare them.

Ogden City Attorney Letter

Smart Growth Response & comparison maps

Update 6/11/06 11:38 a.m. MT: One of our helpful gentle readers has obtained and transmitted to us a copy of Ogden City Attorney Norm Ashton's 6/10/06 "attorney letter," the text of which we have provided via the above link.

Comments are invited, as always.