Hello Peter and Jimmy
I have copied this to boundarypoint since I have now been
reliably informed that is the correct place to discuss tripointing and I don't
want to step on people's toes, being new and all :)
Cheers
Hugh
--- In borderpoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> On the website http://www.albaiges.com/historia/historiatresreyes.htm
> there is a picture of the tripoint of the Spanish regions Navarre, La
> Rioja, and Aragon (provinces Navarre, La Rioja, Zaragoza). It should
> be at the side of the road (the N113 according to my Michelin road
> map), and that road can be seen in the pictures. Convincing so
far.
>
> But on the map sites of Navarre ( http://sitna.tracasa.es/ ) and La
>
Rioja (direct access to relevant map at
> http://www.larioja.org/sig/imagenes/5000/25tp2927.gif
) the "mojón de
> los tres reyes" is not at this roadside, but at the
other side of the
> railway, to the northwest of the location at the
road.
>
> Maybe there are two markers: the "correct" one, and the
one on the
> roadside. The one in the pictures very much resembles
other such
> roadside markers in Spain, which I suspect mark the border
of the
> provincial road network authorities more accurately than that
they
> mark the provincial territories themselves.
>
>
Does somebody have any thoughts on this?
>
> Peter
Hi!
Jimmy Van Dura, class of '75, at your service, having just joined both your
fascinating
point lists. And I was a little confused how this subject
qualified as an international
boundary topic rather than a tripoint topic.
But I think you got it exactly right in the end,
Peter, and that the
pictures are not really "of the tripoint," as they were said to
be.
It is amazing how much false information there
is on the web, but also how misleading
the written word can be -- wherever
it is found. For example, seeing Zaragoza written on
the sunny side on
this triangular "Welcome To ..." or "Entering ..." sign, a reader might
expect to find more than just the scant hectare of Zaragoza that remains
between the
roadway and the real mojon some few meters to its north! For
in fact the vast majority of
Zaragoza lies exactly in the opposite
direction!
But is there someone in the
neighborhood who might be able to check and follow your
detailed map to
perhaps find the real border marker sitting on the true tripoint? ...or the
true tripoint sitting on the real border
marker?
Best,
Jim