Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints<br/>
Date: Sep 14, 2000 @ 01:12<br/>
Author: David Mark (David Mark &lt;dmark@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-995747475">On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, michael donner wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; to confirm both instances of international boundaries actually touching or<br/>
&gt; crossing themselves as previously suggested<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; 1  belgium holland  at<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/baarle/baarlemap.html">http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/baarle/baarlemap.html</a><br/>
&gt; where you can see it near the middle of the page & just above the word rethse<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The Baarle examples look like read self-interscting or figure-8<br/>
international border points, &quot;binational quadripoints&quot; is a good term.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; 2  austria germany  at<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s54ai8wwa6vepwno">http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s54ai8wwa6vepwno</a><br/>
&gt; where you can then zoom in or out for more context or precision<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>If you click to center the map at the (apparent) wusfripoint and them zoom<br/>
in as far as you can, the apparent binational quadripoints appears to<br/>
resolve itself into nothing more than a narrow neck, Austria appears to be<br/>
connected by perhaps a 10 meter gateway between two points of Bavaria.<br/>
<br/>
A road trip could be in order.<br/>
<br/>
David</div>