Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] RE: [borderpoint] Re: Spanish provincial tripoint marker... or not
Date: Sep 12, 2005 @ 19:46
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> The mojon I photoed is the same one that is picturedhttp://www.albaiges.com/historia/historiatresreyes.htm
> at
>
> so I don't quitehttp://www.albaiges.com/historia/historiatresreyes.htm
> understand the comment about the "third" (unless you
> are referring to the
> second one on my web page - but that is at a
> different tripoint).
>
> I searched around on both sides of the road for
> other ones but found
> nothing. The railway is abandoned by the way.
>
> I am in Madrid now so no chance of getting back
> there (its about 300km away)
>
> Cheers
>
> Hugh
>
>
> _____
>
> From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of jim van dura
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 8:42 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com;
> borderpoint@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] RE: [borderpoint] Re:
> Spanish provincial
> tripoint marker... or not
>
>
> Beautifully done, Hugh! We thought there might be
> two
> mojones, and here you have brought us a third! Nice
> to
> see they have no sense of direction too! But did you
> not try to reach the real mojon also, as shown on
> Peter's officially authoritative treasure map??? Or
> are you still in close enough range to double back
> for
> this coup de grace?
> Jimmy
>
> --- Hugh Wallis <hugh@...> wrote:
>
> > Hello Peter and Jimmy
> >
> > I have visited this tripoint and you can find the
> > results of my visit
> > documented at http://tinyurl.com/baglc
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: borderpoint@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:borderpoint@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of jimvandura
> > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:26 PM
> > To: borderpoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [borderpoint] Re: Spanish provincial
> > tripoint marker... or not
> >
> >
> > --- In borderpoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> > Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > On the website
> >
>
> >http://www.larioja.org/sig/imagenes/5000/25tp2927.gif
> > > 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
> > >
> >
>
> > ) the "mojón de<mailto:borderpoint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe>
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
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