Subject: Re: African borders
Date: Jan 04, 2002 @ 19:57
Author: ps1966nl ("ps1966nl" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "jesniel" <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Giving up for an international or provinsial South African tp, I
decided for
> a minucipal - perhaps the very first attempt by a freak.
>
> My wife has a friend working for Stellenbosch municipality and I
asked her
> for a map. Offcourse I had o explain that boundaries are more
important than
> anything else on the map. They had a 1:80 000
>
> I saw that Cape Town-Drakenstein-Stellenbosch is only 10 km from
me, and
> went looking for it. Initially I misread the map, but luckily I had
a road
> atlas that showed things better, and I realized that the tp was at
the road
> rather than the bush. I did find earlier a local atlas that showed
the tp
> far away from the road, so I am not sure if I was on the right
spot.
>
> Anyway according to the municipality map I had to find a road
inbetween a
> highway crossing and a 4 way dirt road crossing - and that's easy.
That's
> where the tp should be. Off course no markers - but I took some
pics - which
> I will post later.
>
> Jesper
> > yesss jesper
> > good to get a fresh field report