Subject: Re: Vennbahn area and municipal maps
Date: Jun 25, 2001 @ 08:06
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:
> The smallest (3rd) Vennbahn enclave is 1.65ha, 16500square metres,
or equal
> to a sqaure 130m on a side. It is thus over 10 times larger than
the
> smallest Indian enclave for which we have data.
> It is not quite rectangular, but about 100m N-S and 150m E-W.
> I measured it using a planimeter, so it is measured off the map.
>
> Also attached are 1973 and 1983 municipal maps of Belgium, cropped
to the
> enclave area. The 1983 map shows the Germanophone region by the
dots along
> the municipal boundaries.
> The 1973 map has dates penciled in by me along some boundaries,
showing
> where the Belg-German boundary was at several time periods.
> The two maps show the situation before and after Belgian municipal
> roorganisations. I also have a 1990s map, but there is no
difference in the
> Vennbahn region.
> BW
>
>
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