Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Fiat boundaries
Date: May 02, 2001 @ 22:45
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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By the way, fiat boundaries don't have to be straight lines.
Fiat boundaries are any boundaries that are located where they are because
some authority declared the boundary to be there. In a sense, all
political boundries are fiat boundaries, sometimes the fiat declaration
is that the boundary is a straight line or a circular arc; other times the
declaration might be that the boundary follows the thalweg or the drainage
divide. In these latter cases the fiat boundary follows or is co-located
with a natural or bona fide boundary or discontinuity in the world.

David