Subject: Re: Boundaries through urban areas
Date: Oct 30, 2003 @ 18:24
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...>
wrote:
> I have been busy lately, so I didn't get to respond to
> somebody who showed a map of a boundary going through
> an urban area. I have some comments and anecdotes on
> the subject that I want to mention.
> It is quite common for state-level boundaries to go
> through urban areas. It happens quite a lot in Europe
> where it goes through buildings. I found buildings
> divided by boundaries in Kopenhagen in both outside
> and inside boundaries. There are divided buildings in
> Vienna. I haven't found any divided buildings in
> non-city first order-divisions, but that is because it
> would be too time-consuming to search them all.
> Though I did pick up a possible first-level enclave in
> the Hamburg area. On the NE part of Hamburg near the
> town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, there seems
> to be an Enclave of Hamburg right next to a
> pene-enclave of Scleswig-Holstein. As
> Schleswig-Holstein does not have detailed German
> mapping site as far as I know, I would like some
> confirmation.

It might be the little enclave NE of Im Ulenbusch street. See
http://stadtplan.hamburg.de/index.jsp and search for that street.

Peter S.