Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] a first earnest but probably elusive cfcgcm try
Date: Jan 29, 2006 @ 04:08
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> But Bwana, what you are suggesting is that thesehttp://home.worldonline.dk/jesniel/border/african_tripoints.htm#cmcfcg
> folks
> most probably did pass directly through the CFCGCM
> tripoint as they navigated down the Sangha thalweg!
> For even if they misjudged their already only
> approximated tripoint location by 14 kilometers of
> river at the time of their GPS reading try, we can
> still be pretty sure they got just as close to the
> true CFCGCM tripoint at some point in their overall
> try as the EGLYSD folks got to their target at 14
> meter GPS range of its known geocoordinates. In
> fact,
> these CFCGCM devotees are likely to have gotten even
> closer because they seem to have realized they were
> on
> the correct line for both CFCM and CGCM, but simply
> had no clue as to the true point of convergence with
> that line of the phantom geodetic CFCG. (And datum
> wasn't even an issue for them!) So, since you have
> accorded Class C honors to the EGLYSD folks at their
> unmarked destination, how can you confer less on
> these
> CFCGCM folks?? To conclude their try was probably
> elusive just because their GPS moment came a bit
> late
> is to miss the greater probability that their try
> was
> as successful as could possibly be, except that it
> was
> without a precise moment of culmination awareness.
> So
> isn't that still a presumptive Class C as in "see"
> (or
> even Class B as in "be") rather than a merely
> "earnest
> but elusive" Class E? --Jimi
>
> --- aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> >
> http://zoltantakacs.com/zt/er/water/album.php?idx=1
> > & i dont know what to make of this gps reading
> since
> > it does seem to be quite a bit off here
> > when compared to these geocoords taken from
> > brownlies
> > sketch maps
> >
>
> > which are also substantially confirmed by encartahttp://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=39.45&TextLongitude=-98.907&TextAltitude=0&TextSelectedEntity=39070&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=bomassa&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on
> >
>
> >http://www.worldwildlife.org/expeditions/car/photo_album2.html
> > so i surmise the photo was actually taken a few
> > reaches down the sangha or dzanga from the real
> > tripoint
> >
> > but their intention is clear & they were at least
> > definitely on the right river
> > & thus must have passed right thru the very near
> > neighborhood of this thalweg tripoint
> > however unwittingly at the time
> >
> > & since there is not even a witness marker to go
> by
> > in
> > this rather remote area
> > & there is no indication that they were
> > multipointing
> > nuts
> > they could easily be indulged for seeming so far
> off
> > target in such a case
> >
> > views of the neighborhood such as these are still
> > pretty rare
> >
>
> >http://www.worldwildlife.org/expeditions/car/photo_album.html
>
> >__________________________________________________
> >
> > cfcgcm as in
> > cf central african republic
> > cg congo brazzaville the new au chair
> > & cm cameroun
> >
> >
> >
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