Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Kerkrade border pillar<br/>
Date: Jul 02, 2001 @ 11:31<br/>
Author: Pepijn Hendriks (&quot;Pepijn Hendriks&quot; &lt;pepijnh@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1754147516">&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:smaardijk@...">smaardijk@...</a>&gt; wrote:<br/>
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Thanks for the scan. <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;But it looks like the Kerkrade municipality has put the town name sign<br/>
&gt;in Germany...<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I guess they did. <br/>
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Schlimm, schlimm. ;-)<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;By that building you don&#39;t mean anything that is on your picture, do<br/>
&gt;you? I don&#39;t think any buildings straddle the border here. the main<br/>
&gt;boundary turning point seems to be the main boundary marker 232, which<br/>
&gt;is on the Nieuwstraat just behind the photographer. The boundary looks<br/>
&gt;like to be continuing up north along the green fence on the right of<br/>
&gt;the picture, towards the Rolduc catholic seminary.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Okay, here&#39;s my reconstruction, largely drawn from memory. <br/>
<br/>
The Germans call the first part of the Nieuwstraat Aachener Straße <br/>
(up to where it makes its southward bend). We approached from the <br/>
German side, walking down the road from the point where it bifurcates <br/>
on the righthand side of your scan. This continuation is, I believe, <br/>
also called Aachener Straße. Your scan indicates border marker 232, <br/>
standing at the junction of they Heyendallaan and the <br/>
Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße. This junction is actually a roundabout. <br/>
The building is crammed between the Heyendallaan, border marker 232a, <br/>
and actually *interrupts* the Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße (where this <br/>
road constitutes the border) and the Aachener Straße. The roundabout <br/>
is in front of the building. Coming from the Aachener Straße you <br/>
can&#39;t see the Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße: you have to go around the <br/>
building. <br/>
<br/>
This being the case, I see no other option than that the building <br/>
actually *does* straddle the border. <br/>
<br/>
-Pepijn<br/>
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