Subject: Boundaries through urban areas<br/>
Date: Oct 30, 2003 @ 17:49<br/>
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1752310287">I have been busy lately, so I didn&#39;t get to respond to<br/>
somebody who showed a map of a boundary going through<br/>
an urban area.  I have some comments and anecdotes on<br/>
the subject that I want to mention.<br/>
It is quite common for state-level boundaries to go<br/>
through urban areas.  It happens quite a lot in Europe<br/>
where it goes through buildings.  I found buildings<br/>
divided by boundaries in Kopenhagen in both outside<br/>
and inside boundaries.  There are divided buildings in<br/>
Vienna.  I haven&#39;t found any divided buildings in<br/>
non-city first order-divisions, but that is because it<br/>
would be too time-consuming to search them all. <br/>
Though I did pick up a possible first-level enclave in<br/>
the Hamburg area.  On the NE part of Hamburg near the<br/>
town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, there seems<br/>
to be an Enclave of Hamburg right next to a<br/>
pene-enclave of Scleswig-Holstein.  As<br/>
Schleswig-Holstein does not have detailed German<br/>
mapping site as far as I know, I would like some<br/>
confirmation.<br/>
Even in USA, buildings can be divided by boundaries in<br/>
Urban areas.  About two years ago, I was driving to<br/>
Smoky Mountains with a friend (who is patient enough<br/>
to deal with my two obsessions of sports and<br/>
boundaries) and we happen to drive past Bristol,<br/>
Virginia and Tensessee.  Bristol is a city that is<br/>
divided by the Main Street.  Bristol doesn&#39;t have a<br/>
GIS site, but there are divided buildings in<br/>
Washington County on the outskirts of that city on<br/>
their GIS site.  One of my favorite border areas that<br/>
my friend, who lives in DC, happens to have mentioned<br/>
to me are the two circles in DC.  Both Massachusetts<br/>
Avenue and Connecticut Avenue enters DC in a circle. <br/>
I drive through Connecticut Avenue to go to my<br/>
friend&#39;s apartment and when I enter the circle, I am<br/>
in Maryland and when I leave, I am in DC.  Much of DC<br/>
has boundaries on streets.  But according to their GIS<br/>
site, the boundaries are slightly off and there are<br/>
quite a few driveways and one parking lot that are<br/>
divided by the boundaries.  Unfortunately, I haven&#39;t<br/>
found any buildings that are divided.  Guys, you<br/>
should check out my links site.  There are a lot of<br/>
sites I have collected.<br/>
My friend also mentioned this picture<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Oct2003/California.TMOA2003299_lrg.jpg">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Oct2003/California.TMOA2003299_lrg.jpg</a><br/>
of the California fire.  The boundary is shown on that<br/>
picture.  You think Mexico is happy with the smoke<br/>
from the American fire?<br/>
Arif<br/>
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