Subject: Re: Two Japanese Tripoints visited
Date: Nov 05, 2005 @ 17:21
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Wallis" <hugh@o...> wrote:
>
> Really they were rather disappointing though - and only able to do class b
> visits even though one was dry and, according to the best topos I can find
> (from http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/ - 1:25000 - and they are even georeferenced
> on the WGS84 datum!), on a road. There were absolutely no indications of
> prefectural boundaries (other than occasional road signs some distance after
> the actual borders) - not even road surface changes.
>
> I did go for the "low hanging fruit" - these were only a couple of km from
> each other, not requiring extensive hiking in the hills or anything.
>
> They are Ibaraki-Saitama-Tochigi (wet) and Gunma-Saitama-Tochigi (dry). BTW
> - I noticed that all Romanji renderings on signs around here use the
> spelling Gunma rather than Gumma. No doubt alethiak will come up with the
> "correct" abbreviations for these locations.
>
> Pictures will be posted later as it is time for bed now here in "UTC+ 9
> hours" land.
>
> Cheers
>
> Hugh
>