well it is not only a technicality but a change of topic
artur began by remarking about borders which
on a map
look like they were made by a ruler
after the associative comments chris & peter added above his
i continued or rather resumed arturs topic
at the bottom
referring to these borders more simply as
straight looking
tho my meaning followed upon & was clearly the same as his
then mike came back on top & shifted terms
from straight looking
to merely straight
but it was clear he too still meant straight looking on a map
just as artur & i did
rather than actually straight
& if you just take mike at his word here
rather than in the sense we know he actually meant
& was responding to
then of course
even without any technicality
almost as much hell breaks loose as len was able to achieve by
his several departures from the terms of the discussion
fortunately in a separate message
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> 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@y...>
> 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@h...> 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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