It's not a disputed boundary - what happened was that New York City set the
edge of the park a bit further south than where the eventual line between the
part of Westchester County that split off to join New York and the rest of the
county.
--- Jesper Nielsen <
jesniel@...> wrote:
> How does this boundary work out?
>
> Is there an error on the map? Is it disputed?
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Asher Samuels" <asher972@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 8:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NJNY
>
>
> > 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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