Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: stretching the quest for a real stretchable latex tripoint to stretch
Date: Sep 24, 2006 @ 19:49
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
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From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <boundarypoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: stretching the quest for a real
stretchable latex tripoint to stretch
> thats comforting
> & i would like to learn your method of getting there
> too
> even as i clownishly extemporized my own landing at
> the airport runway crossing
> for i could just as easily have picked anywhere else
> within this best guessed square mile or so of target
> area too
>
> but i have just realized there is an inconvenient fact
> or 2 to dispose of first
>
> for it turns out there actually is no trijunction of
> the 32nd parallel & 94th meridian with the sabine
> river
> oops
> nor even with the entire toledo bend reservoir that so
> enlarges that general target area for us today
> oops again
> & in fact there is nothing even remotely resembling
> such a trijunction there
>
> for the cursor cross on this map marks the exact
> n32x94w point
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=31.99994&lon=-93.99999&s=200&size=l&u=6&datum=nad83&layer=DRG
>
> & thus there is actually 2 or 3 miles of play here at
> the west end of haggards arbitrary closing line
> to perfectly match the 2 or 3 miles of play we have
> already found in bayou pierre lake at the east end of
> it
>
> so there isnt really a closing line possibility at all
> yet but rather only a very crude 2 or 3 mile wide
> closing strip from end to end
>
> but
> if we can somehow manage to shrink the width of that
> strip down to the thickness of an actual line
> then i believe i have discovered a workable
> methodology for nailing the tripoint
> using the google earth measuring line tool in
> combination with the mouse pointer altitude registry &
> the contour feature etc
>
> i even went so far as to begin my measurement on
> chicot island here
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=32.10587&lon=-93.55704&s=200&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG
> since it is the only named feature in the lake area on
> google earth & it does rather nominate itself as the
> grand central terminal of that entire neighborhood
>
> the first attachment shows my first try with the start
> of this line
>
> for of course the rude awakening didnt occur to me
> until i tried to end this line on the sabine at
> n32x94w
> hence no attachment to show the other end just yet
>
> but in the meantime a second inconvenient fact arose
> which is that the only obvious site for a settlement
> on bayou pierre lake is along the shore due west of
> chicot island
> where a cemetery & present settlement etc are still
> indicated
> & which thus might only be partly included in the
> neutral ground by a closing line begun from chicot
> island
>
> so clearly my closing line would be better to include
> all of that shore
>
> so i thought again & selected instead of this island
> the northernmost point of the lake for the beginning
> point of my improved closing line
> as shown by the cursor cross here
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=32.11972&lon=-93.55324&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG25
> as well as by the little red starting square in my
> second attachment
> with the idea in view of solving the messy conundrum
> on the sabine river end of the closing line by
> choosing the correspondingly northernmost feasible
> point there too
>
> & i suppose i should ask you first if there isnt some
> clear preference indicated in your sources for any 2
> of the 3 data that so sold you on the correctness of
> this allegedly but not really multicoincident terminal
> point
>
> but all else being equal in your experience
> i think the 2 data i would choose to honor there would
> naturally be the ones that produce the correspondingly
> most inclusive result
>
> hence the river & the parallel rather than the
> meridian
>
> or in other words i would place the western terminal
> of the closing line right about here
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=31.99993&lon=-94.04592&s=100&size=l&u=6&datum=nad83&layer=DRG
> & also as shown by the completed closing line in my
> third attachment
>
>
> well
> it is getting late
> so i think i will wait til morning to proceed
> in case you do have some different data or preferences
> to add in
> but i think you can already see where i am headed next
> with this
>
> toward a highly presumptious but still best available
> & most inclusive possible & indeed totally stretched
> out notional lalatxtx
> wherever i find the sabine red divide actually crosses
> my closing line