--- aletheiak <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger
> McCutcheon" <rogerdwmac@...> wrote:
> >
> > I am puzzled by the coordinates mentioned: that
> part of Devon is around 51
> > North, 4 degrees West.
>
> thanx roger & you are certainly right about the
> coords
> so i too am puzzled by not finding any others
> mentioned anywhere in all this that you
> might have been puzzled by
> unless
> but yikes this is too funny
> you might well be referring to the last 6 characters
> in the guessed tripoint name i offered
> gb2en3do4cocrds
>
> for i agree cocrds does by chance unintentionally &
> misleadingly suggest coordinates
> & or co coordinates
> when in fact it is just my arbitrary cockabebble
> notation for the 3 parishes involved in the
> tripoint
> namely
> co colebrook
> cr crediton &
> ds down saint mary
> arranged in standard hierarchical & alphabetical
> order
>
> provided
> gb great britain is first
> en england 2nd
> do devon 3rd
> & the parishes indeed 4th in the hierarchy
>
> all of which is also subject to confirmation & or
> correction btw
>
>
> so hopefully all our puzzlement is just owing to a
> highly felicitous communication disorder
> for which i take full credit & or responsibility as
> the case may be
Yes, I too agree with the whole idea of puzzlement,
and thank you all many times over for this hearty
cosmic joke -- and lets never again think of such a
riot as disorder (!) but rather as a whole new order
of communication. For we certainly could make
GB2EN3(etc.?) "do for cocoords"! Indeed this entire
crazy (but natural) multipoint naming system does very
well for them!! (You just have to know your
geopolitical divisions, hierarchies and
abbreviations...or be willing to invent them.) In the
case of the Copplestone tripoint hierarchy, I think
the beginning of your name for it is OK, even if UK
might be preferred by some to GB, since I realize you
are fairly wedded to standard ISO. And, I can't
imagine there will be any objection to your EN for
England, even if I am not so confident your DO is "the
Law" for Devon (nor so nuts about HASC in general) as
you and Gwillim here may be:
http://statoids.com/ugb.html
. . . but, more to the point, he provides a missing
layer in your hierarchy by indicating that the
tertiary entity of Devon is subdivided, quaternarily,
into districts first, rather than into parishes
directly, so the parishes must comprise not the 4th
but the 5th order of rank there. And, cribbing if I
dare from the map at the bottom here:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
. . . I get the distinct impression your COCRDS
tripoint (if that's truly what it is) will be found
well within the district of Mid Devon... or MD if I
may assume the honor for it in order to finally offer
the hopefully corrected (as well as refructified)
now-octodecaglyph:
GB2EN3DO4MD5COCRDS (or gb2en3do4md5cocrds in lite, as
you may prefer). --Jimi
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