Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: 10th century tripoint stone that grew a village
Date: Mar 19, 2006 @ 14:25
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:thanx pals
>
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger
> > McCutcheon" <rogerdwmac@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am puzzled by the coordinates mentioned: that
> > part of Devon is around 51
> > > North, 4 degrees West.
> >
> > thanx roger & you are certainly right about the
> > coords
> > so i too am puzzled by not finding any others
> > mentioned anywhere in all this that you
> > might have been puzzled by
> > unless
> > but yikes this is too funny
> > you might well be referring to the last 6
> characters
> > in the guessed tripoint name i offered
> > gb2en3do4cocrds
> >
> > for i agree cocrds does by chance unintentionally
> &
> > misleadingly suggest coordinates
> > & or co coordinates
> > when in fact it is just my arbitrary cockabebble
> > notation for the 3 parishes involved in the
> > tripoint
> > namely
> > co colebrook
> > cr crediton &
> > ds down saint mary
> > arranged in standard hierarchical & alphabetical
> > order
> >
> > provided
> > gb great britain is first
> > en england 2nd
> > do devon 3rd
> > & the parishes indeed 4th in the hierarchy
> >
> > all of which is also subject to confirmation & or
> > correction btw
> >
> >
> > so hopefully all our puzzlement is just owing to a
> > highly felicitous communication disorder
> > for which i take full credit & or responsibility
> as
> > the case may be
>
> Yes, I too agree with the whole idea of puzzlement,
> and thank you all many times over for this hearty
> cosmic joke -- and lets never again think of such a
> riot as disorder (!) but rather as a whole new order
> of communication. For we certainly could make
> GB2EN3(etc.?) "do for cocoords"! Indeed this entire
> crazy (but natural) multipoint naming system does
> very
> well for them!! (You just have to know your
> geopolitical divisions, hierarchies and
> abbreviations...or be willing to invent them.) In
> the
> case of the Copplestone tripoint hierarchy, I think
> the beginning of your name for it is OK, even if UK
> might be preferred by some to GB, since I realize
> you
> are fairly wedded to standard ISO. And, I can't
> imagine there will be any objection to your EN for
> England, even if I am not so confident your DO is
> "the
> Law" for Devon (nor so nuts about HASC in general)
> as
> you and Gwillim here may be:
> http://statoids.com/ugb.html
> . . . but, more to the point, he provides a missing
> layer in your hierarchy by indicating that the
> tertiary entity of Devon is subdivided,
> quaternarily,
> into districts first, rather than into parishes
> directly, so the parishes must comprise not the 4th
> but the 5th order of rank there. And, cribbing if I
> dare from the map at the bottom here:
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
> . . . I get the distinct impression your COCRDS
> tripoint (if that's truly what it is) will be found
> well within the district of Mid Devon... or MD if I
> may assume the honor for it in order to finally
> offer
> the hopefully corrected (as well as refructified)
> now-octodecaglyph:
> GB2EN3DO4MD5COCRDS (or gb2en3do4md5cocrds in lite,
> as
> you may prefer). --Jimi