Pictures now available at http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/Japan_2005-11-05/ - a.k.a. http://tinyurl.com/cjadj

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From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of aletheiak
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 2:21 AM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Two Japanese Tripoints visited

well i am not disappointed hugh & dont see why anyone need be you bring us our premier japanese tries & some original findings so nice going we already had reason to believe japanese multipoints might be a little odd & you have brought evidence of this & have opened the mystery up a little too & perhaps you will be able to learn more while you are there btw if you simply gazed out upon the wet one from the shoreline then that would presumably be a class d visit if your view of the point was distant & diffused or a class c if close up & clear youd have to claim to have carefully & confidently reached the very spot for a class b & on the dry one if you were left with no certain or clear idea where it was even situated then that would be a class e as in elusive but still excellent so these arent judgments or grades in any sense but just shorthand descriptions of your degrees of success & according to my favorite source http://statoids.com/ujp.html the officially correct names of your chosen trijunctions are ibsttc & gmsttc presumably pronounced ibstick & gumstick even if gumma is written gunma & with the jp2 prefix optional since we know where you are & what level you were on there looking forward to chewing some more on this with you --- 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 >