Subject: Re: bcidwa & bcidmt & Canada/US 49th border vista
Date: Aug 30, 2002 @ 19:34
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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glad to meet you dave

well said & thanx
as both these tripoints are bp virgins

btw i had always thought a confluence was a stream junction
& had never heard of lat & long intersections called this way
that is
til you guys started flowing them together

a nice conjunction of energies in any case
m





--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "canadadcp" <dpatton@c...> wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> First, I'm not an active member of this group, so appologies
> if I haven't used the 'correct terminology' for the tripoints:
> bcidwa = British Coulumbia, Idaho, Washington
> bcidmt = British Coulumbia, Idaho, Montana
>
> For those of you interesting in these points:
> 1)
> You might be able to get some info about the terrain
> nearby by checking the 49N 117W and 49N 116W degree
> confluence pages on our site.
> 2)
> I recommend taking a look at USAPhotoMaps from JDMCox Software:
> http://www.jdmcox.com/
> The ability to get the Terraserver images and 'stitch them
> together' is quite handy, and along the Canada/US border
> (at least for the areas I've looked at in the west) the aerial
> photos extend just north of the border, so that the full
> boundary vista is shown.
>
> Dave Patton
> Canadian Coordinator
> the Degree Confluence Project
> http://www.confluence.org
> dpatton@c...
> 49°16'07"N 123°09'07"W