Jacques-Cartier

1) Le Taureau (The Bull)

January 11, 2009

Trip Report

ReporterRob Smage

The confusion arises because AW now allows rivers in Canada (and Mexico, and Costa Rica, and Dominican Republic) to be entered on the AW river pages. The initial question arises out of looking at the state of Ohio, pulling up the AW listing 'By Drainage'. The organization of that listing is based upon the 'HUC', a code used by governmental agencies to identify different stretches of different drainages. Canada has a similar system of codes for it's streams. Unfortunately, the numbering schemes 'overlap', causing these humourous/annoying anomolies -- rivers far away, in Canada, showing up as though they were part of a watershed in Ohio (or elsewhere). The AW database/software development team is working on a 'fix' for this, which should be applied in an upcoming update to the system.