nicely done
& by careful measurement on the tactical pilotage chart
& areal computations
i have confirmed the acreages of your areas a & b are easily
within 1 percent of each other
so this fact alone is highly presumptive of an equal land swap for
those little trapezoidal parcels alone
but apart from that
the sliver as a whole was evidently subtracted from jordan pure
& simple
without any apparent territorial compensation from iraq
so the quid pro quo wasnt for the primary de facto adjustment
but evidently followed upon it only secondarily
& it was in that sense that i meant i dont see how jordan gained
any territory back for what it gave
overall
& still dont
also
the positioning of your red line conjunction at the red square
tho visually promising
actually appears to miss a perfect match by more than a mile on
the chart when carefully measured
so in conjunction with such a precise acreage match
this detail cant be so easily presumed to be coincident
but seems more likely to be a wishful thought & a forced fit
however
the thick mexican style border depictions do muddy things up
& all the caveats on the chart that alignments are only
approximate may save your hypothesis as well as bust my idea
that there may really be 3 rather than only the 2 probable iqjosas
you show as red & black squares in your diagram
but without harder data & pending some explanation of this
hitherto unnoticed de facto iqsa as good as your explanation of
the de facto iqjo
& some clue that there really was some tripartite understanding
that could explain the existence of such a triple point
i think all these possible convergences & coincidences should
be held in suspense
your attempt to connect everything is interesting
& i would beat the bushes with you to validate it
& am quite curious as to what this de facto iqsa is all about now
but the existence of the double or triple iqjosa probability could
still be completely unrelated to the existence of the double iqjo
probability
fascinating puzzle in any case
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> I prepared a simple web page at www.mexlist.com/bp/iqjo.htm
to illustrate how
> the current IQJO boundary might have evolved. The map on
the left is from the
> Sandia paper cited earlier. The map on the right is one that I
have devised to
> illustrate the scenario that I suggest.
>
> The black lines on my map are the traditional boundaries
intersecting at the
> black IQJOSA tripoint. For some reason (perhaps nothing
more than the
> availability of more accurate maps), the tripoint was moved
from the black one
> to the red one, thus creating the alternate red boundaries,
which are shown as
> the "de facto" boundaries on various maps that we have
recently seen. Then came
> the 1984 agreement to provide for the Iraqi military airfield. In
that
> agreement, Jordan swapped "A" to Iraq in exchange for "B,"
thus establishing the
> boundaries shown in blue. The Ruwayshid Airfield is indeed
in "A."
>
> I can't prove this scenario, but it seems reasonable, and it
answers the
> question as to what territory Jordan gained (in respect to the
red boundary)--or
> retained (in respect to the black boundary).
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:57 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: IQJOSA
>
>
> > ahh nice
> > i hadnt noticed that
> >
> > not only 2 iqsas but a dogleg of iqjo also
> > rather than the simple wye shaped iqjosa trijunction we saw
on
> > your first map this morning
> >
> > plus another addition to iqjo obviously
> > the extra reach created between the parallel iqsas
> >
> > so 2 more perfect mysteries
> > perhaps related to the iqjo sliver
> > which has now been pretty much explained by lowell
> > tho i dont see how jordan gained any territory
> >
> > & what you are calling parallel iqsas may actually converge
into
> > another sliver shape off frame to the southeast for all we
know
> > unless there is an online continuation of this map
> >
> > but clearly there are now not just 2 but 3 probable iqjosas