Subject: Re: neutral zone<br/>
Date: Oct 17, 2004 @ 20:31<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1891339106">we dont & wont know til we see the next map to the west of this one<br/>
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assuming seeing a map equates to knowing<br/>
hahahaha<br/>
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but if you can extend all 3 lines to the left of your viewing screen <br/>
i feel pretty sure they will at least appear to converge in a point<br/>
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perhaps right on top of your printer<br/>
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if it is set up like the one here in salem<br/>
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i mean <br/>
they appear to converge at the west far better at least than they <br/>
appear to converge at the east tripoint<br/>
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but i think the fact that the mapmaker says flat out that <br/>
this alignment is just approximate <br/>
& you shouldnt fly your airplane by any of it <br/>
etc etc <br/>
means you & brendan may already have given it too much credibility<br/>
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& that it could well be merely an error in data reiteration<br/>
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or at least i would hold out for better data if i was trypointing it<br/>
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for even if they pretended this was the real deal<br/>
which they dont<br/>
then is usjog supposed to be any better than the usgs or cia<br/>
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so you see how hypnotic & perhaps even dangerous a map can be<br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Michael Kaufman <br/>
&lt;mikekaufman79@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Do we know if the Western terminal point of this 1981<br/>
&gt; Saudi-Iraq boundary segment goes from the former<br/>
&gt; Saudi-Iraqi-Neutral West tripoint?  Or could it be off<br/>
&gt; the former tripoint like the Eastern terminus which<br/>
&gt; hits the former Saudi-Neutral border (and misses the<br/>
&gt; Saudi-Iraqi-Neutral East tripoint)?<br/>
&gt; -Mike<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; --- Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@u...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; According to current US Joint Operations Graphics<br/>
&gt; &gt; maps, the division of the <br/>
&gt; &gt; Neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia was not<br/>
&gt; &gt; ,as might be expected, <br/>
&gt; &gt; along its long (east-west) axis form point to point,<br/>
&gt; &gt; but at a slight angle. <br/>
&gt; &gt; See<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/NH_38_11.jpg">http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/NH_38_11.jpg</a><br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Brendan Whyte<br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; 	<br/>
&gt; 		<br/>
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