Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] canadian road allowances<br/>
Date: Jun 05, 2003 @ 02:48<br/>
Author: Tom Sanders (Tom Sanders &lt;hilversum96@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-36133417"><div><br>Some north-south local roads in Michigan also have bends in them where they cross county lines. Others have smaller bends where they cross township lines. I had always assumed the bends were allowances for the Earth&#39;s curvature. If two roads&#39; paths were allowed to continue uncorrected, they would eventually begin to move away from each other instead of converging, as meridians of longitude do, at the North Pole. </div>
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<div>Whenever someone comments on why the roads have to bend, and not follow a perfectly straight path, I point out that they&#39;re proof that the earth really is round, :)</div>
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<div>The Canadian roadallowance rules explain why some local roads, at least in southern Ontario, are named First Concession, Second Concession, and so on. (I didn&#39;t know that.)&nbsp; A large scale road map of SW ON looks like a jigsaw puzzle, with local roads meeting at odd angles. There is one point where five roads meet in a star pattern. </div><p><hr SIZE="1">
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