--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Textopunctoscopy is not going to work everywhere.
yes i figured that
but i thought to give you credit for everywhere anyway
so it might at least become true or more true than now
Actually, Nebraska is in the
> minority of states in having its county boundary legislation
included in its
> codified laws. Most states' on-line codified laws simply have the
statutes
> related to county government, but they don't contain the boundary
> specifications. Those would be found in musty, old non-codified
legislative
> acts that are seldom on-line. I don't yet have a list of the
states with
> codified county boundaries on-line. We can learn that as we go.
yes good
& that will at least give us a fix on how many lifetimes it may take
but i think things are getting better all the time too
so we could still stand to save all extra lives in the final analysis
> Then there's Texas (where many of our prospective tertiary
quadripoints lie).
> When the Republic of Texas joined the Union in 1845, it retained
title to all of
> its vacant public lands. Thus, they were not surveyed under the US
Public Land
> Survey. The state's General Land Office handled all of that. I do
not know,
> yet, what procedures were used to install a survey grid in those
areas not yet
> settled. It will be interesting to find out their methodology for
surveying
> those lines and inserting offsets. I'll be working on that.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:07 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] vernal ut re kearney ne Re: sidney ia
>
>
> >
> >
> > thanx
> > & best wishes for many more textopunctoscopies
> >
> > presumably this means the road centerline intersection i hit with
my
> > big toe
> >
> >
> > with your new hi tech state of the art
> > it may be possible to complete our megapointing usa prospectus
now in
> > a single lifetime
> >
> > i think it may still require empirical roadbed measurements tho
> > in cases like this
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > [By popular demand, Lowell now points his TextoPunctoScope to
the
> > purported
> > > Butler, Polk, Seward, York quadripoint in Nebraska.]
> > >
> > > The Nebraska Revised Statutes describe the SW corner of Butler
> > as "the southwest
> > > corner of township 13 north, range 1 east." (Interestingly, the
> > northern
> > > boundary of Butler along the meandering Platte River was amended
> > effective
> > > January 1, 2004 to conform to a long series of bearings and
> > distances.)
> > >
> > > The SE corner of Polk is "the southeast corner of township
> > thirteen, north, of
> > > range one, west." This point would be nominally identical with
the
> > SW corner of
> > > Butler described above.
> > >
> > > The NW corner of Seward is "the northwest corner of township
> > twelve, north, of
> > > range one, east." Again, this is nominally identical with the
two
> > corners
> > > described above.
> > >
> > > The NE corner of York is "the northeast corner of township
twelve,
> > north, of
> > > range one, west." Again, we have nominal agreement.
> > >
> > > Now, is there any offset in either the range line or the
township
> > line that
> > > would make this something other than a perfect quadripoint? The
> > answer is "No."
> > > I can say this because the range line in question here is the
Sixth
> > Principal
> > > Meridian itself. As such, it would have no offsets at all,
being a
> > continuous
> > > true meridian throughout its territory. The township line in
> > question is the
> > > Third Standard Parallel North (of the Sixth Principal Meridian's
> > Base
> > > Line)--each fourth township line being a standard parallel. The
> > standard
> > > parallels are surveyed before any of the other nearby range and
> > township lines.
> > > The range lines are surveyed due north (not south) from each
> > standard parallel,
> > > so it is on the standard parallels that you would expect to find
> > offsets in
> > > range lines to correct for accumulated convergence of meridians
and
> > any
> > > accumulated error. Again, this is no ordinary range line,
> > however, but the
> > > Sixth Principal Meridian.
> > >
> > > So, I think we can adjudge this a perfect cardinal-cross
> > quadripoint.
> > >
> > > To our non-American friends, for whom the United States Public
Land
> > Survey must
> > > be a deep mystery, I apologize. :-)
good joke
but this is original bp fundamental pursuit
they could be inspired to do megapointing europe too
& reveal still profounder mystery
> > >
> > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
a huge cut occurs at this point in honor of brendan