Subject: Re: Really Abitrary Points
Date: Jun 21, 2001 @ 21:06
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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Is anyone familiar with this site:
http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/ ?
In casu watersheds:
http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/register/index.html .

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., bjbutler@b... wrote:
> Watersheds hav also interested me, especially watershed tri-
points.
> These would be the points where a drop of rain would be split into
> three droplets destined for different rivers. I seriously doubt
that
> there are any watershed quad-points.
>
> BJB
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@t...> wrote:
> > I have some "meridian" links in my favorites collection.
> >
> > Maybe an idea for someone to make an website with all these kind
of
> links
> > ???
> >
> >
> > The French meridean:
> > http://www.apgi.net/andouque/nouveaut.htm
> >
> > The Utrecht meridean:
> > http://www.sonnenborgh.nl/
> >
> > Greenwich:
> > http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/peter-m/meridian/peter-
mer.html
> >
> > Fiji at 180 degr.:
> > http://www.millenniumfiji.com/180.html
> >
> > Interesting, aren't they?
> >
> >
> >
> > There should be many more sites to be found, for example on the
> equator,
> > polar circle etc.
> > I always wonder if anywhere the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic
of
> Capricorn
> > are marked???
> >
> > Another frontier, not being a real border, [but anything is
alowed
> in this
> > group I learned] is the
> > continental division (waterscheiding it is called in my Dutch
> atlas).
> > I remember that on the way to Austria we saw at one of the German
> Autobahnen
> > a big sign
> > "Europaïsche Wasserscheide". Which might be considered a
> > sort-of-border-marker....
> > The GCEBE will cross the division also ......
> >
> >
> > What personally intrigues me also is the centre, the highest
point
> etc.
> > For the Netherlands, you might check my humble website:
> > http://leden.tref.nl/~veenhh/borderland.htm
> >
> > gl
> > Harry ten Veen