hopefully corrected url below
with apologies
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> a better list & map did indeed turn up
> http://www.geohive.com/cd/link.php?xml=az&xsl=xs1
> which btw is also interesting for its internal claving implications
>
> & using the earlier map & list below as backup for the gray areas
> of which there are still far too many for comfort or confidence
> a grand total of either 76 or 77 major subdivisions of greater
> azerbaijan now seems most likely
>
> & the difference depends only upon whether the formerly single
> nakhichevan unit is replaced or increased by its 6 new districts
> a distinction without multipointing consequences
> & thus no obstacle to proceeding with the preliminary survey
>
> far greater difficulties however
> which leave many uncertainties in the following census
> & for which i have only made best guesses
> include the facts that the boundaries shown even on the above
> improved map are unreadable in places
> & that 5 of the urban units evidently have too small a territory to
> show up on this map at all
>
>
> nevertheless
> because it is possible to proceed now & allow for improvements
> later
> just as was the case with the survey of triemirate points in ae2
> here is the full list of the 85 currently most likely az2 tripoints
> followed at last by the full preliminary tally of the entire letter a
>
> aaleln
> abhasb
> abhasl
> absbsl
> acambr
> acamxd
> acbqfu
> acbqzr
> acbrzr
> acfuxd
> ambrta
> amkata
> amkaxc
> amxcxd
> arbaha
> arhaqo
> arqoxi
> arsqxi
> asbryv
> asbrzr
> asgyqa
> asgyuc
> asmiqa
> asskyv
> asuczr
> auhaku
> auhasi
> auisku
> auissi
> bahasl
> bbjush
> bqimzr
> brtayv
> bsclne
> bsimst
> bsnesl
> bssbsl
> bssbst
> cbfuxd
> cbqdxd
> cbqdzg
> clmane
> clmayr
> dsgdsm
> dskaxr
> dssmxr
> dvqbsi
> dvqbxz
> dvsixi
> dvsyxi
> gasxxre
> gasxxrw
> gasxyv
> gdsmto
> grkata
> grkaxr
> grsxxr
> grtayv
> gyisku
> gyisqa
> gykuuc
> hakusb
> haqosi
> imkusb
> imkuzr
> imsbst
> isqaqb
> isqbsi
> kalcxc
> kuuczr
> lcqdxd
> lcsuxc
> lcsuxd
> lelnma
> lemayr
> lnmane
> miogqa
> qaqbqr
> qbqrxz
> qosixi
> qxskyv
> qxsxyv
> smsxto
> smsxxr
> suxcsd
>
>
> & finally
> the full counts of the major internal multipoints
> of the iso alphabetically first 11 of the worlds 193 countries
> together comprising the complete letter a
> as follows
>
> ad2 andorra 4 including 1 quadripoint
> ae2 united arab emirates 13 including 2 condo tripoints
> af2 afghanistan 43
> ag2 antigua & barbuda 4
> al2 albania 11
> am2 armenia 10
> ao2 angola 18
> ar2 argentina 21 including 1 quadripoint
> at2 austria 5
> au2 australia 12
> az2 azerbaijan 85
>
> grand subtotal 226 including 2 quadripoints & 2 condo tripoints
>
> & subject to further minor improvements as previously noted
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> <orc@o...> wrote:
> > this map
> > http://www.azembassy.com
> > appears to give the officially complete topology of az2
> > including both nakhichevan & nagorno karabakh
> >
> > other sources have confirmed that the primary subdivisions
> include as
> > many as 65 districts or rayons as they are called
> > plus as many as 11 apparently independent cities
> > producing a maximum grand total of 76 primary subdivisional
> entities
> > all of which happily appear to be named & glyphed at
> > http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/vaz.html
> >
> > so the first serious task will be just to identify & count them all
> as
> > they appear on this map
> > just to confirm that our punctoscopy will indeed be playing with
> the
> > full deck as it were
> >
> > that is
> > unless anyone can offer a better map &or a better list in the
> meantime
> >
> > but the early rushes for now are that az2 doesnt include any
> obvious
> > megapoints
> > while appearing to have only a single remote quadripoint
> possibility
> > where several borders converge but peter out in mingachevir
> reservoir
> >
> > so with only that very minor loose end
> > i think we can tentatively close the book on megapoints of the
> letter a
> > having confirmed only the 1 andorran & 1 argentinian
> exemplars