Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Cyrpus maps
Date: Apr 28, 2001 @ 14:36
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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excellent
pinprick accuracy
thats new & nice

now can you shine this laser on the tripoints

m


>
>As usual, anything I post turns up 2-7 days late. SO as you have the graph
>of the points in the treaty, here are the besic texts of the boundaries in
>the UK-Cyprus treaty, giving the gridreference turning pointrs and the way
>to join the points, which are all straight lines except where mentioned
>differently.
>
>Here's also the maps I have of the Cyprus enclaves in UKSB areas. These are
>form the UN Treaty Series, v382. They are originally 1:100 000. There is a
>1km grid marked.
>I have seen the original treaty in the PRO in London, and have a copy of the
>text. The boundaries were marked with pinpricks on aerial photos.
>The text lists 4 boundaries. boundary one is the main one of the British
>base. Boundary 2 is the power station, and is in 2 parts, boundary 2 and
>boundary 2a. Boundary 3 is Ormidhia and boundary 4 is Xylotymbou
>
>The maps used to define the boundary ar 1:10 000 sheets. The standard 1:25
>000 mapping for cyprus (now long out of print i think) was divided into 8
>1:10 000 sheets (also out of print), lettered A to D across the northern
>half of the 25k sheet, then E to H across the southern half thus
>ABCD
>EFGH
>
>you can follow the grid refs from the scanned maps. The points are only
>given to the nearest 10m which seems strange. I thought they would have used
>1m ponits, but using points on a 10m grid is reasonable enough.
>
>Boundary 2 starts at
>"3859,4759 [Point 41B/15, on sheet 41B]
>thence to
>3859,4768 [Point 41B/27]
>thence along a line maintaining a distance of 10 yards from the centre line
>of the Larnaca-Ormidhia road to
>3877,4761 [Point 41C/38 on sheet 41C]
>thence along the line of the perimeter fence to the north of Dhekelia power
>station to
>3934,4762 [Point 41C/39]
>thence to
>3937,4762 [Point 41C/40]
>thence along the boundary between the plots numbered 29/(1/1) and 29/(1/2)
>on cadastral sheet No. XLI/21 to
>3940,4757 [point 41C/32]
>thence in a straight line to the position lying on the line of mean sea
>level at a true bearing of 180 degrees from Point 41C/32;
>thence along the line of mean sea level to the position lying on that line
>at a true bearing of 180 degrees from point 41B/15;
>thence in a straight line to Point 41B/15."
>
>
>The point numbering relates to all the points of all the boundaries on each
>sheet, not just to those of one boundary, thus the jumps from 41B/15 to
>41B/27 etc.
>
>
>Boundary 2a from
>"41B/26 3860,4780
>thence to
>41C/26 3889,4823
>thence to
>41C/27 3905,4824
>thence to
>41C/28 3926,4779
>thence to
>41C/29 3928,4780
>thence along the boundary between the plots numbered 34(5/1) and 34(5/2) on
>cadastral sheet No. XLI/21 to
>41C/41 3936,4767
>thence along a line maintaining a distance of 40 yards from the centre line
>of the Ormidhia-Larnaca road to
>41B/26."
>
>BW
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