Hallo All,

Anybody interested enough to define these borders as a group.

I am prepared to put the results on a website to draw general reactions.

What type of map scale would one need to draw these lines ?

A desciption could include arguments for choices made along the line.

However I don't agree with your priority points, you say (see below) ;

a) Waterways

b) International borderlines

c) Mountain chains

International borderlines don't always follow waterways and mountains, but I agree with the natural elements

I would say

a) Waterways

b) Mountain chains, and

c) International (national) borderlines (if the natural elements don't show any hint)

I am attaching a map to get this going ea-007.gif

Nenet-Komi area following National borderlines

Like to hear comments/reactions

regards

Franc van Diest

franc@vdiest.nl

----- Original Message -----

From: acroorca2002

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 7:59 PM

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Continental Borders

dade city fl hi franc we have discussed this but your input is timely & gets to the whole question better than ever before i think it is fair to sum up our previous tries as follows we found no official indices nor any compelling reasons to distinguish the several socalled continents & their divisions however & just to underscore the artificiality of the entire matter we did find that there is some consensus that the panama & suez canals do the job best as do the watercourses generally thereafter & thirdly the international divides as in the aegean & finally the heights of land as in the urals the trickiest part of all has appeared to fall in the brief segment between the ural river & the ural mountains since the river doesnt fall precisely from the divide & there it seems no objective standard can be found for drawing that short sector of the line but it hardly matters except among us enthusiasts m actually i stopped at the first computer i could find to give a report as soon as i realized that the hamlet of lacoochee in the withlacoochee forest has evidently been merged with the nearby hamlet of trilby to form trilacoochee anyway it seemed important & i guess thats right