another corroboration tho perhaps not yet a clear sighting of a
mexican state line marker occurred in message 5061 at chso
& it is interesting as well as revealing of the difficulty
that we have made no progress at all on the very simple &
seemingly reasonable request made in that message
for any hard info whatsoever on chihuahua sonora
nor any progress til just now on any other mexican state line
for that matter
so i am beginning to wonder if the mexican state lines arent all
just defined as strings of geocoordinated but unmarked points
in some secret or public but arcane document
that has been squirreled away in some forgotten repository
& which gets referred to only very occasionally & only for such
unavoidable purposes as marking major highways etc
if indeed it can ever be found at all
while all the many & mutually conflicting maps of mexican state
lines might just have been copied from older mutually conflicting
maps which might only have been very hopefully based on these
official geocoordinates in the first place
it is most peculiar
perhaps there is a simpler explanation tho
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
<orc@o...> wrote:
> john
> welcome back & well done
>
> > > even just an ordinary domestic state line marker
> > > anywhere within that country
> > > would be totally novel
> > >
> > > if you travel by car between monterrey & saltillo
> > > at about the halfway point you will have a crack at mx2conu
> > > the coahuila & nuevo leon state line
> > > where there might conceivably be a road stone waiting for
> you
> > > but we simply have no clue yet as to what to expect there
> > > or on any state line within mexico
> >
> > Would you believe a white sign with black letters that says:
> >
> > "Termina Taumulipas Principia Nuevo Leon"
>
> ahh yes i would
> but between monterrey & laredo rather than saltillo
> which i gather must be what you meant
>
> & it jogs deja vus of others i may have seen elsewhere long
ago
> without realizing their significance at the time
>
> but even so
> & even if its no nonsense simplicity wasnt already convincing
> i think the apparent absence of a road stone or any other
obvious
> marker there in such a critical location probably means this
sign
> itself is the interstate boundary demarcation
> & possibly the closest thing there is to a real state line marker
> anywhere in mexico
> since its placement & style do make it seem federal or mutual
> particularly in relation to the partisan nuevo leon welcome sign
>
> so this does indeed appear to be the first sighting of its kind
ever
> reported here
> which alone is a most exciting event
> even without the promised pic
>
> > Then a green sign that says "Bienvenidos a Nuevo Leon"?
> >
> > I didn't have my camera ready the first time, so I had to stop
on
> the way
> > back and take the other pic first, then cross the median take
> the one going other way , run way down, to take the
"Bienvenidos
> a Nuevo Leon" one.
> >
> > I didn't see a road stone.
> >
> > >
> > > if you get the chance to reconnoiter a little farther afield tho
> > > about 100km south of saltillo there may be a truly great
prize
> > > the probably difficult to impossible mx2conusaza
> > > or the legendary mexican 4corners point
> > > where the states of san luis potosi & zacatecas are
believed
> to
> > > meet the above pair
> > the Museo de Metropolitiano Monterrey, next to the HoJo had
a
> map showing these four states. An old map, there are not
show
> as touching. I think NL was cut off from SLP, but I might be
> misremembering.
>
> or it could just be typically fuzzy mexican mapping
>
> pending any harder evidence tho
> i am still inclined to trust arifs call
> that this hoped for conusaza quadripoint is very probably all
there
>
> but the question is
> will it be marked
>
> > I have not yet developed the photos from the NL-TM border or
> the ones I took on the International Bridge Walkway in Laredo.
I
> was told I could not take pictures in the US direction, but I had
> taken a few three days earlier from the CIETV where you get
> permits in Mexico.
>
> aha interesting
> clearly you could take them
> & all the green across the middle of the pic must be the rio
valley
>
> > I will send in a day or two.
>
> great
> thanx