Subject: BEC old and new<br/>
Date: Aug 30, 2002 @ 22:36<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-771338198">The centre of Belgium is in the municipality of Walhain, province of <br/>
Walloon Brabant, and more precisely in the municipal section of Nil-<br/>
Saint-Vincent, at 50° 38&#39; 28&quot; N & 04° 40&#39; 05&quot; E. This point was <br/>
calculated by the French IGN in 1995, and a monument was put there in <br/>
1998. Before that, BEC was supposed to be in the village of Ittre <br/>
(also in Walloon Brabant). The point is that this point was <br/>
calculated when the Eastern Cantons (the area in the east that was <br/>
transfered from Germany to Belgium after the first world war) still <br/>
weren&#39;t part of Belgium. In other words, it took the Belgians some <br/>
time to realise that the central point was wrong.<br/>
<br/>
http://www.walhain.be/template.asp?m=2&sm=3&smenu=Centre%<br/>
20géographique&tmp=4<br/>
http://home.planetinternet.be/~christel/belgie/bocht/Image3.jpg<br/>
<br/>
The old BEC: http://www.sit-ittre.be/<br/>
<br/>
At http://www.sit-ittre.be/iffaq.htm , the suggestion is made (this <br/>
is after all the site of Ittre) that the new BEC isn&#39;t accurate <br/>
either, because the French IGN surveyors reportedly forgot about the <br/>
Baarle-Hertog exclaves.....<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>