perhaps i have again not made myself clear

& perhaps it is not terribly important either
inasmuch as cardinal pointing is really just a diversion anyway from our
primary focus of multipointing
but such an amusing diversion that it may truly warrant another try to explain

what i meant below is that even cardinally oriented boundaries like those
of colorado or wyoming
which might normally draw our pointing attentions only to their corners
still have in addition subtle but real cardinal extremes of survey drift

& the oldest examples of this as in new england are often quite unsubtle

the connecticut east & north points for example are so exaggerated that
they even appear to the naked eye as slight projections on any half decent
map

the precise monument positions on probably every such survey boundary are
all recorded somewhere
sometimes down to ten thousandths of a second or fractions of a centimeter
& these data are even beginning to reach the web

the state of delaware for example has such an advanced monument
identification program & such a neat southern boundary as to fairly beg for
an immediate test analysis

the sector map at http://www.rdms.udel.edu/dgr/boundaryMap.html leads in a
few steps to precise geocoordinates for all 36 candidate monuments along
the delaware south line from dese to desw for the southernmost point in
delaware

you can try all 36 & do the simple comparison exercise for yourself
but i can tell you that the monument described at
http://www.rdms.udel.edu/dgs/boundary/ID6.html is the easy winner by about
2 meters over the nearest challenger monument for the delaware south point
at precisely 38degrees 27minutes 03seconds81561

& tho there is only a slightly perceptible overall curvature of the
delaware south line & no projection of this point upon it is visible with
the naked eye des can nevertheless be found & reached with the additional
help of http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.4531&lon=-75.1335&size=s&s=25

the correct monument is directly above the letter d in sandpit

now if you think that is a pointless point to make you are right
& that is why i have added it very pointedly to my short list
& am really intrigued by it now perhaps precisely because it is so ridiculous
& by the many others of this sort

after all there is not yet a single known instance of a perfectly executed
cardinal meld or news tour of any state
so why write off all these wonderful dry land chances with real stones to
visit without at least checking them out first

m

>by the same token
>wyo & colo must have their cards as surveyed in microreality
>or dont you agree
>
>>I realized I had a couple more pictures of the NJE shoreline area.
>>One faces south and the other faces west. The southward facing photo
>>shows some rocks I would estimate to be 150 feet downstream from
>>NJNE. The smokestacks of the Yonkers power plant are
>>directly in line with them and 3.17 miles distant. The line runs
>>2.61 degrees east of south. The photo caught part of the flat
>>boulder adjacent to NJNE so I seem to have been leaning against it or
>>at least standing very close to it. Doing the trigonometry, we get
>>150sin(2.61) or 6.83 feet as the distance east the rocks are from the
>>camera position. So if was standing more than 6.83 feet shoreward of
>>NJNE then it must be promoted to NJE. If less, then I at least have
>>a picture of NJE taken from NJNE. If equal then it's a draw and New
>>Jersey must be placed in the same category as Wyoming or Colorado,
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>>BJB