Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Tongues and maps
Date: Oct 07, 2000 @ 14:13
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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agreed
i think i will just continue to concentrate on multipoints
especially the world class & various other real elites & rarities
& relax about all the rest


& in the zoomable olympics
your new vaud site raises the bar for beauty & detail & tech & surprise ending

& tho i couldnt work the benelux sites
i trust thats 3 more countries
bringing our total up to at least 11

nice to dive into places like transkei too
whether we count them or not

m


>
>Yeah, the tongues of land jutting out into another
>countries are pretty common. I am sure there are many
>if we look at maps of countries in detail. I was
>aware of the Elm Point and one other Minnesota ones.
>There should be one each in Washington (besides Point
>Roberts) and New York. I have seen two such places in
>India-Bangladesh border caused by rivers. There is
>one tongue of Uganda in Lake Victoria. There are also
>two piers of Iraq which juts out from Kuwaiti
>territory.
>
>Some other zoomable sites, from great to mediocre are
>1) Vaud, Switzerland -
><http://www.geoplanet.vd.ch/0_frame.asp?NAME=ENVIRONNEMENT>
>http://www.geoplanet.vd.ch/0_frame.asp?NAME=ENVIRONNEMENT
>(Zooms up to individual houses)
>2) South Africa -
><http://www.leisuremap.co.za/hotscript/hsrun.exe/webapps/guide/MapXtreme.htx;st
>art=start_map?Guide=Symbols>
>http://www.leisuremap.co.za/hotscript/hsrun.exe/webapps/guide/MapXtreme.htx;star
>t=start_map?Guide=Symbols
>(Don't expect much)
>3) For Netherlands -
><http://www.locatienet.nl/> http://www.locatienet.nl/ (The best)
><http://www.goudengids.nl/> http://www.goudengids.nl/ (The Baarle borders are
>good)
>4) For Belgium -
><http://www.yellowpages.be/> http://www.yellowpages.be/ (Not so great
>except for
>Baarle boundaries)
>
>Maptech and Terraserver, besides topozone has American
>topo maps. Maptech also has shoreline photos and maps
>which you can print out. Terraserver zooms in to the
>1:24,000 which is annoying except when you look for
>thin boundaries. Www.falk.de also has mapquest level
>maps. One of my interests lie in finding local
>enclaves and as almost all of the countries has
>international or local enclaves, I just found the
>sites.
>
>Arif