Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Two Japanese Tripoints visited
Date: Nov 06, 2005 @ 14:56
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 2:21 AM
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> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Two Japanese Tripoints
> visited
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> well i am not disappointed hugh & dont see why
> anyone need be
>
> you bring us our premier japanese tries & some
> original findings
> so nice going
>
> we already had reason to believe japanese
> multipoints might be a little odd
> & you have brought evidence of this
> & have opened the mystery up a little too
>
> & perhaps you will be able to learn more while you
> are there
>
>
> btw if you simply gazed out upon the wet one from
> the shoreline
> then that would presumably be a class d visit
> if your view of the point was distant & diffused
> or a class c if close up & clear
>
> youd have to claim to have carefully & confidently
> reached the very spot for
> a class b
>
>
> & on the dry one
> if you were left with no certain or clear idea where
> it was even situated
> then that would be a class e
> as in elusive but still excellent
>
> so these arent judgments or grades in any sense but
> just shorthand
> descriptions of your
> degrees of success
>
>
> & according to my favorite source
> http://statoids.com/ujp.html
> the officially correct names of your chosen
> trijunctions are ibsttc & gmsttc
> presumably pronounced ibstick & gumstick
> even if gumma is written gunma
> & with the jp2 prefix optional since we know where
> you are & what level you
> were on there
>
> looking forward to chewing some more on this with
> you
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Wallis"
> <hugh@o...> wrote:
> >
> > Really they were rather disappointing though - and
> only able to do class b
> > visits even though one was dry and, according to
> the best topos I can find
> > (from http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/ - 1:25000 - and
> they are even
> georeferenced
> > on the WGS84 datum!), on a road. There were
> absolutely no indications of
> > prefectural boundaries (other than occasional road
> signs some distance
> after
> > the actual borders) - not even road surface
> changes.
> >
> > I did go for the "low hanging fruit" - these were
> only a couple of km from
> > each other, not requiring extensive hiking in the
> hills or anything.
> >
> > They are Ibaraki-Saitama-Tochigi (wet) and
> Gunma-Saitama-Tochigi (dry).
> BTW
> > - I noticed that all Romanji renderings on signs
> around here use the
> > spelling Gunma rather than Gumma. No doubt
> alethiak will come up with the
> > "correct" abbreviations for these locations.
> >
> > Pictures will be posted later as it is time for
> bed now here in "UTC+ 9
> > hours" land.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Hugh
> >
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