Subject: Re: Groot Moerhof, on befr
Date: Nov 23, 2001 @ 00:35
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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> I can explain why _I_ care so much: At a tripoint, there is normallythank you
> not a lot happening (with some exceptions: bedenl is fairly
> touristic). They sometimes do have nice monuments, of course. Borders
> have border crossings. Border crossings on tripoints are not really
> that common, to say the least. (The exception here is bedenl again.
> Well, not really bedenl, but benl border marker no. 1. About fifteen
> years ago, I travelled with a friend by car from the Belgian side to
> this point, expecting not to be able to travel any further than the
> said point. Much to our surprise, we drove all the way past the
> boundary marker and into the Netherlands. I think that is not
> possible anymore.) I agree that tripoints are very exciting, but
> there is more boundary than there is tripoint in this world (if it's
> allowed to compare "singularity" to "linearity"), so there is more to
> get happy about when you include these boundaries.
> history. And in history, boundaries change, and because of that theyes it does
> tripoints. Not the other way around!
>
> So it may be called boundary point, but for me it might as well be
> called boundary line. (And for you, palindrome point, maybe ;-)
> PalPoint sounds nice!)
>
> Peter S.