On a personal note, borders like this can be inconvenient for cartographers.
When I worked for a map company doing field checks, we would get plots of the
various areas (about 1/4 square mile per plot), and we would ahve to check that
the streets actually existed, whether they were one-way, etc.
The catch is that each county was in a separate database, and therefore only
the roads in a given county would appear on the plot. We often spent a lot of
time backtracking to get to the next street, where we would maybe have maybe a
quarter of the block to check.
We did get to discover some fun oddities, like the section of the Bronx that's
north of Pelham Bay Park. The houses have Westchester zip codes and, IIRC, 914
(westchester) phone numbers.
Asher
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.8831&lon=-73.8115&datum=nad83
--- m06079 <
barbaria_longa@...> wrote:
> yes quite possibly
> judging from the crisscrossing street pattern
> if that is what you are meaning to point out
>
> & many state lines
> but especially the straight ones
> do occasionally run right thru buildings & other manmade
> objects
> just as they do occasionally run straight across islands & the
> other natural objects i know you also like to see split in 2
>
> & they do all this probably just as commonly if not so
> dramatically as straight international borders do it
> which may explain why europeans tend to be more fascinated by
> such things than americans usually are
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > This straight line have to cross through buildings etc., there E
> of the red
> > road.
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 10:22 PM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NJNY
> >
> >
> > > yes & many of us have probably blown right past new york city
> on
> > > the bright red bypass highway at the upper left corner of this
> map
> > > which is the newest & final link of interstate 287
> > >
> > > & the large pink area is actually the greater suffern &
> mahwah
> > > metro area within the much greater new york megalopolis
> > >
> > > & the entire most densely populated area all around ny city
> > > which is shown on the topos mostly in pink
> > > is actually called the tristate or the tristate area
> > > since it includes part of connecticut too
> > > tho there is no ctnjny tristate point
> > >
> > > but what specifically is your curiosity about
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > > > I just looked at a map of New York and noted that NJNY is a
> > > straight line through a populated area.
> > > >
> > > > I checked with Topozone and found this part:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4550923&e=57117
> > > 8&s=25&size=l&u=0&layer=DRG25
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody explored this area?
> > > >
> > > > Jesper
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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