haha thanx nice play
& very revealing
for if
as the article seems to indicate
only a single new geodesic segment has resulted from
the survey correction
which is admittedly still a big if
then the point you have evidently discovered upon this
segment would indeed establish a range of distances
for the displacement from the old adcori to a new
adcori

& since the article says 2 houses have been thrown
into adams & 5 into richland by the change
then it follows further that neither extant terminus
could have been used for the correction segment
but that the southern terminus must have been shifted
far enough to the southeast along the extant boundary
to somehow include those 2 houses
& that the northern terminus must therefore have
pivoted correspondingly to the northwest of your found
point

now again
any of these assumptions could be mistaken
but if they are all correct
then the turnpoint to the south of your discovered
point would have to lie somewhere on the next extant
geodesic segment to its south
& thus no farther south or east than the subsequent
turnpoint
as indicated by the cursor cross here
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4457182&e=686802&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

& this would then project the new geodesic segment
thru your found point to a new adcori no more than
about a quarter of a mile southwest of old adcori on
extant cori
or roughly no farther from old adcori than the cursor
cross indicates here
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4468552&e=685306&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
but probably way way closer to it in fact
since remember only 5 of all those black dots will
change from richland to adams

indeed if we were trying to guess by just reallocating
black dots
which after all makes a certain amount of sense too
then the drift might only be about a quarter as much
as that
or to only about here
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4468755&e=685438&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

now do i really want to call the surveyor again first
thing monday morning again

well happily i can sleep on that

--- "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...> wrote:

> No intrusion at all.
>
> The article focuses on the Campbells, of the newly
> divided house, but they are
> unlisted. It also mentions their neighbors on
> Solomon Run Road, the Rentons,
> who suddenly find themselves entirely in Adams
> Township. The Rentons are at
> 1247 Solomon Run Road, Johnstown. Mapping that
> address on TerraServer produces
> the red dot on this map: http://tinyurl.com/bk8ux .
> The house on the west side
> of the road at that point is about 400 feet from the
> line shown.
>
> Of course, we don't know that the us2pa3ca4adcori
> tripoint was displaced at all
> by the new survey. The newfound error might have
> affected only the opposite
> (southern) terminus of the Adams-Richland geodesic
> segment in question, which is
> no tripoint at all.
>
> Might this be another one of those cases where you
> end up phoning the surveyor?
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
> To: <boundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:14 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] a tripointing puzzle joke
>
>
> > excuse my intrusion into your sunday evening if it
> is
> > that
> > because i have this amusing tale about a divided
> house
> > & a border change running thru it
> >
>

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_323235253.html?keyword=secondarystory

> > & i am not even sure if it involves a tripoint
> > so it is offered for your titillation to be sure
> > but also with a question of its multipunctual
> > authenticity
> >
> > this official map of richland township
> > http://www.richlandtwp.com/map.html
> > shows adams township to be her neighbor on the
> east
> > & conemaugh township their neighbor on the north
> > where the tripoint most likely to have been
> misplaced
> > since it was evidently a single survey line that
> was
> > afflicted
> > would be us2pa3ca4adcori
> >
> > the topo shows the presumably incorrect former
> > tripoint here
> >
>

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4468838&e=685555&s=100&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

> >
> > but can anyone determine the tripoint displacement
> > range if any involved in this border change
> > from the data given in the article
> >
> >
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