Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] 2 different tripoint positions a few mm apart
Date: Sep 04, 2004 @ 23:28
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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Ok I see what you say; I interpreted your text as
meaning two different tripoints' positions.

--- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael
> Kaufman
> <mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> > 2 TPs a few millimeters apart?
>
>
http://www.public.asu.edu/~redsall/triplepoints/june2004/19.htm
> > > the marker is unusual in indicating 2 distinctly
> > > different tripoint
> > > positions a few millimeters apart
> > > tho both are coverable with a single touch of an
> > > index finger
>
> focusing closely on the 2 different die stamps that
> appear in the
> approximate center of the 1931 glo disk marker
> if you compare the point formed by the middle of the
> hole in the
> triangle with the point formed albeit implicitly by
> the tee junction
> you will notice that they do indeed fall several
> millimeters apart
>
> & tho that was fine & probably even went unnoticed
> in 1931
> given the present state of survey art in 5 or 6
> decimal digits of
> degminsec &or statute feet
> which equates to submillimetric accuracy
> these 2 positions would today be acknowledged &
> expressed as
> 2 different geodetic points
>
>
>
>




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