good tough question
the hairline between class c & class d is the hardest to shave
& you have offered an especially difficult borderline case of it
here besides
it is the same challenge as settling the semantic question of
what exactly is close
& what exactly is distant
or between what exactly is clear & crisp & clean
& what exactly is diffused & dim
add to this the varying abilities of peoples eyesight & binocs &
camera lenses etc
& i admit
subjectivity does indeed rear its ugly head just here
but i guess the real threshold criterion is whether the observer
actually sees the point clearly as a point
rather than somewhat less distinctly
it is sometimes possible to earnestly claim class d at a range of
100 miles in high mountains
or at a range of 10 miles near sea level
but i dont think it is normally possible to claim class c at a range
of 1 mile
& even at a range of only a tenth of a mile
i have usually found class c is more wishful thinking than actual
perception
but your thin pole here could represent the rare exception
especially if it appears to have a pointy tip
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Asher Samuels
<asher972@y...> wrote:
> Okay, so if the tripoint is a few kilometers away, but has a pole
clearly
> marking the location, does that count as a class c or a class
d?
>
> I'm thinking of the de-facto ILLBSY as an example. You can
see the pole from
> the slopes of Mt. Hermon, but there aren't any roads that get
close to it (you
> also have mines in the way).
>
> Asher
> ------------
> > class c
> > means
> > you got close enough to actually see the tripoint
> > or else to clearly visualize the tripoint location
> >
> > class d
> > means
> > you got a distant glimpse
> > & only a general sense of the location
>
>
>
>
>
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