Subject: Re: a tripointing puzzle joke
Date: Nov 22, 2005 @ 04:45
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> yes very nice
> & what you add about the possibility of folk allocation may be true
> but the official town of richland map & the usgs topo do at least agree on adri
> all the way from adcori to the first supposed adri turnpoint & beyond
> so the folk who did this allocation must have included the tax collectors of the 2 towns
>
>
> still sleeping on it tho
> zzzzz zzzzz
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't that nice of the journalist to include the name of the surveyor and the
> > town in which to find him?
> >
> > Of course, the business about two houses this way and five that might refer to
> > changes from where the people only THOUGHT that they lived (folk allocation),
> > rather than the actual change from the line as conventionally mapped to the one
> > newly surveyed.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] a tripointing puzzle joke
> >
> >
> > > haha thanx nice play
> > > & very revealing
> > > for if
> > > as the article seems to indicate
> > > only a single new geodesic segment has resulted from
> > > the survey correction
> > > which is admittedly still a big if
> > > then the point you have evidently discovered upon this
> > > segment would indeed establish a range of distances
> > > for the displacement from the old adcori to a new
> > > adcori
> > >
> > > & since the article says 2 houses have been thrown
> > > into adams & 5 into richland by the change
> > > then it follows further that neither extant terminus
> > > could have been used for the correction segment
> > > but that the southern terminus must have been shifted
> > > far enough to the southeast along the extant boundary
> > > to somehow include those 2 houses
> > > & that the northern terminus must therefore have
> > > pivoted correspondingly to the northwest of your found
> > > point
> > >
> > > now again
> > > any of these assumptions could be mistaken
> > > but if they are all correct
> > > then the turnpoint to the south of your discovered
> > > point would have to lie somewhere on the next extant
> > > geodesic segment to its south
> > > & thus no farther south or east than the subsequent
> > > turnpoint
> > > as indicated by the cursor cross here
> > > http://topozone.com/map.asp?
> z=17&n=4457182&e=686802&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> > >
> > > & this would then project the new geodesic segment
> > > thru your found point to a new adcori no more than
> > > about a quarter of a mile southwest of old adcori on
> > > extant cori
> > > or roughly no farther from old adcori than the cursor
> > > cross indicates here
> > > http://topozone.com/map.asp?
> z=17&n=4468552&e=685306&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> > > but probably way way closer to it in fact
> > > since remember only 5 of all those black dots will
> > > change from richland to adams
> > >
> > > indeed if we were trying to guess by just reallocating
> > > black dots
> > > which after all makes a certain amount of sense too
> > > then the drift might only be about a quarter as much
> > > as that
> > > or to only about here
> > > http://topozone.com/map.asp?
> z=17&n=4468755&e=685438&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
> > >
> > >
> > > now do i really want to call the surveyor again first
> > > thing monday morning again
> > >
> > > well happily i can sleep on that
> >
>