Wasn't that nice of the journalist to include the name of the surveyor and the
town in which to find him?
Of course, the business about two houses this way and five that might refer to
changes from where the people only THOUGHT that they lived (folk allocation),
rather than the actual change from the line as conventionally mapped to the one
newly surveyed.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] a tripointing puzzle joke
> 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