If the Renton home were set back from the road, it could be all the way back
near the mapped line, so that a small revision would switch it. Lots of country
people have driveways longer than 400 feet. I do.
What I mean by my theory on newly recovered markers is that, while the
intermediate markers were lost, the line got mapped as a single geodesic between
the two termini. Now that they are recovered, the line becomes at least three
shorter geodesics connecting them. There is only one other way that a revised
line could shift some homes one way and some the other, that being if one
terminus of a single long geodesic was moved one way and the other terminus the
other. While that is possible, I think it might be more likely that
intermediate markers were found that caused the line to wander a bit from
as-mapped.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:21 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: a tripointing puzzle joke
> intertwingling coming up please thanx
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think that 400 feet is fairly accurate for the house on the west side of
>> the
>> road near the red dot in the road produced by TerraServer from the Rentons'
>> street address. However, it is possible that the Renton home is a newer one
>> not
>> on the map, across the road on the east, and much closer to the mapped line.
>
> yes i want to believe this
>
> in fact i want to believe it is set way back from the road
>
> & that their bedroom is way in the back of the house besides
> hahaha
>
> so like how many feet at the outside do you think we might reasonably be able
> to whack
> off of those 400 if we really had to
>
>> Didn't the article say that the surveyor had recovered some old forgotten
>> stones
>> or markers?
>
> indeed
> lost markers plural
> & i have counted with confidence only up to 2 so far
>
> Perhaps the maps show a long geodesic where the actual originally
>> surveyed line (now recovered) is a somewhat imperfect one hopping from stone
>> to
>> stone.
>
> do you mean the straight line we think we see on the maps is actually a series
> of slight
> wiggles
> well perhaps so
> but i still havent surely counted past the 2 terminal markers that would be
> necessary for a
> single geodesic segment
>
> lost & found markers being generally rather scarce i mean
>
> That could account for a few houses one way and a few the other without
>> any wholesale transplant of the entire line and its two termini. Is this
>> what
>> you meant by your suggestion that the single-line theory might bite the dust
>> first of all?
>
> yes but happily it still lives in my mind
> & your revised minimum plausible measurement could promote it dramatically
>
> thanx
>
>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA