Subject: Re: BEC old and new<br/>
Date: Aug 31, 2002 @ 15:29<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1490895030">nice find<br/>
very cool indeed<br/>
& what vectorial value to give the claves when recalculating<br/>
m<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; The centre of Belgium is in the municipality of Walhain, province <br/>
of <br/>
&gt; Walloon Brabant, and more precisely in the municipal section of Nil-<br/>
&gt; Saint-Vincent, at 50° 38&#39; 28&quot; N & 04° 40&#39; 05&quot; E. This point was <br/>
&gt; calculated by the French IGN in 1995, and a monument was put there <br/>
in <br/>
&gt; 1998. Before that, BEC was supposed to be in the village of Ittre <br/>
&gt; (also in Walloon Brabant). The point is that this point was <br/>
&gt; calculated when the Eastern Cantons (the area in the east that was <br/>
&gt; transfered from Germany to Belgium after the first world war) still <br/>
&gt; weren&#39;t part of Belgium. In other words, it took the Belgians some <br/>
&gt; time to realise that the central point was wrong.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; http://www.walhain.be/template.asp?m=2&sm=3&smenu=Centre%<br/>
&gt; 20géographique&tmp=4<br/>
&gt; http://home.planetinternet.be/~christel/belgie/bocht/Image3.jpg<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; The old BEC: http://www.sit-ittre.be/<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; At http://www.sit-ittre.be/iffaq.htm , the suggestion is made (this <br/>
&gt; is after all the site of Ittre) that the new BEC isn&#39;t accurate <br/>
&gt; either, because the French IGN surveyors reportedly forgot about <br/>
the <br/>
&gt; Baarle-Hertog exclaves.....<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Peter S. </span></blockquote></div>