Subject: Re: Quick GIS list of MultiCountry points<br/>
Date: Aug 08, 2000 @ 14:50<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1340881273">from david offlist<br/>
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still i think this is very good news to share<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;the &quot;machine&quot; (geographic information system) would do this easily for any<br/>
&gt;set of regions/polygons, given the data.  And there is the trick.  Free<br/>
&gt;data is generally only available for the world of nation-states, and for<br/>
&gt;the United States.  Most other governments copyright their data and charge<br/>
&gt;fairly high fees for it.  So, it would be fairly easy to do US States, or<br/>
&gt;all the US multi-county points (probably around 6000-7000?).<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;The oceans are a different matter, it seems to be the tradition to<br/>
&gt;terminate national and state boundaries at the shore in these datasets,<br/>
&gt;and to leave the oceans as one big polygon.  There are probably &#39;law of<br/>
&gt;the sea&quot; databases somewhere that do divide the ocean and even the three<br/>
&gt;mile limits and 3 league limits but I do not know about them.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;David<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>ok<br/>
beautiful<br/>
here is the question then<br/>
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ignoring 3mile & 3league data in this case<br/>
  because they are irrelevant in this case<br/>
& including los  or law of the sea  databases<br/>
because i think they may well be the whole picture & nothing but the<br/>
picture in this case<br/>
how would i begin to search for this single los attachment<br/>
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& if i find it could i then hook it up to the vacuum cleaner<br/>
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m<br/>
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as for the multisubdivisional points<br/>
i am content to leave these for future generations of enthusiasts<br/>
hahaha<br/>
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except perhaps for the megapoints & maxipoint<br/>
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so i am also curious in this area<br/>
what do you & we all think about the relative weights of the points<br/>
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like for example<br/>
am i right or mistaken in my belief that the tri country list is<br/>
objectively paramount & in fact the world class<br/>
or isnt a quadripoint somehow more significant than its tripoint siblings<br/>
or arent twins & triplets etc just plain more than the ordinary singletons<br/>
etc<br/>
etc<br/>
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not expecting answers in this area necessarily<br/>
but any musings would be most welcome<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt;On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, michael donner wrote:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; i am seeing this dream machine of yours works equally well on both dry &<br/>
&gt;&gt; wet points<br/>
&gt;&gt; like<br/>
&gt;&gt; rivers<br/>
&gt;&gt; lakes<br/>
&gt;&gt; no problem<br/>
&gt;&gt; & wondering whether it vacuums in salt water as well<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; also whether it could be programmed to suck up all such points out of any<br/>
&gt;&gt; given subregion  or sub subregion  etc<br/>
&gt;&gt; & thus ultimately out of the entire world<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt;   muffled m@d laughter in background<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; but both serious questions<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; m<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; </span></blockquote></div>