Thanks, Mats! I am convinced. Still, I find it strange that after a
whole pack of boundary changes in 1967 that looks to have been aimed
to do away with all sorts of boundary anomalies, the road would have
been changed in such a way that it creates another anomaly! Why
putting the new road _on top of_ no. 6 and on the other side of 7,
but apparently relocating 9 (or was the stone replaced with a new
one, on the same location)? Oh well, they will have had their reasons
for it...
By the way: I very much like these pictures. Very nice ones!
And: rule no. 2 is much more serious. It is the job of cartographers
to know!!!
Peter S.
Mats Hessman wrote:
> I'd like to argue that the road has actually been moved.
>
> First, take a look at the comparison of maps recently
> posted to BoundaryPoint, here:
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/Map_Comparison.jpg
>
> Note that there is a slight difference in the appearance
> of the road between marker 9 and marker 6. On the 1966
> map, the road seems to have a sharper bend than on the
> 1988 map.
>
> Note also that marker 6 seems to be located on the north
> side of the road, on both the 1966 and the 1988 maps.
>
> I'd say this was the case in 1966, but now take a look
> at where marker 6 is located now (and has been since 1977):
>
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_6,I.jpg
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_6,II.jpg
> The upper arrow points at marker 5, the lower at marker 6,
> which appears to be a bronze plaque in the middle of
> the road.
>
> And here is a close-up of marker 6:
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_6,III_close-up.jpg
>
> Marker 5, which is engraved with the year 1839, can be
> seen from a closer distance here:
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_5,I.jpg
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_5,II.jpg
>
> And marker 7, now on the south side of the road but
> still with the year 1839, is here:
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_7.jpg
>
> Marker 9, further west, was apparently replaced when
> the road was reconstructed, as shown here:
> http://images.enclaves.org/busingen/B_marker_9.jpg
>
> This leads to the conclusion that the "Dorfplan Dörflingen"
> best shows this part of the border, whereas "Landkarte
> der Schweiz" from 1988 isn't very good at it. But no
> map has placed marker 6 where it truly belongs -
> in the middle of the road.
>
>
> We know Jesper's rule number 1:
> "The locals don't know."
>
> Is there a Jesper's rule 2, being:
> "The cartographers don't know."?
>
> Mats