Well, this is a technicality, but...
Any parallel of latitude, or any other line of constant bearing that is not a
meridian of longitude, is not straight. Only an arc of a great circle is a
"straight" line. Even then, it is straight only in the horizontal dimension,
since it curves with the surface of the earth and probably goes up hill and down
as well.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kaufman" <mikekaufman79@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Strange section chit border
> Which leads to the question of which manmade segments
> are NOT straight. The only thing that comes to my
> mind is the DE-PA Arc (or Arcs). Are there any world
> class examples? I can not think of one, but I may be
> forgetting about something.
>
> --- m06079 <barbaria_longa@...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> > Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > Note also that it is a municipal exclave of
> > Innerferrera.
> > > Cf.
> >
> http://www.innerferrera.ch/innerferrera/geschichte.html
> >
> > (mentions
> > > a territory exchange with Italy in 1962/63 as the
> > cause).
> > > Peter S.
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "chris
> > schulz"
> > <23568@g...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Thats right,
> > > >
> > > > as i know its result of special interests of
> > switzerland.
> > > > the shown situation is from val di lei.
> > > >
> >
> http://www.home.pages.at/maxifant/Frames/val-di-lei.htm
> >
> > (german)
> > > > when the wall had been build, switzerland wanted
> > to save
> > this wall
> > > by itself,
> > > > because in the case the wall would be hit (by a
> > bomb or
> > whatever)
> > > all the water would come to the val di Avers in
> > Switzerland.
> > > > so now switzerland can save the wall with own
> > guns,...
> > > >
> > > > regards, chris
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Artur Kroc
> > > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:07 PM
> > > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Strange section chit
> > border
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This section looks strange - like african
> > borders - like made
> > by
> > > ruler...
> >
> > straight looking sections of borders are actually
> > fairly common
> > everywhere
> >
> > indeed they occur wherever a border runs directly
> > between 2
> > markers
> > or in other words
> > just about everywhere there is a manmade rather than
> > a natural
> > delineation
> >
> > & that means the great majority of the individual
> > delineations in
> > the world
> >
> > it is just that a much larger scale map is needed to
> > see most of
> > them
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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