Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Officials inspect town border markers
Date: Nov 05, 2002 @ 20:20
Author: Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
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I cannot believe the fuss the Americans are making about their town boundaries.
 
During the last couple of months I have been chacing municipality tripoints here in Copenhagen, and it hasn't been easy. The municipalities is really no help, and nothing is marked on the ground.
 
For those who like it, the Copenhagen County GIS site is at http://www.teknik-kbhamt.dk/siab.asp?o_id=1253. It's nice zoomable with areal photos. Matrikelkort mean cadastral maps.
 
On the first map you can see the municipality boundaries of Copenhagen county. The inner area is the Copenhagen municipality and the very inmost area Frederiksberg municipality, which you can see is an enclave. Copenhagen and Frederiksberg municipalities also acts as counties, and as Arif pointed out on his site you can see Frederiksberg in surrounded by Copenhagen municipality, surrounded by Copenhagen county. Copenhagen county is named after Copenhagen, which is not part of the county. The county also do not have an official capital.
 
I am presently staying in Frederiksberg, but will be moving to Høje Taastrup by the end of the month.
 
Jesper 
----- Original Message -----
From: acroorca2002
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Officials inspect town border markers

actually these are 2 slightly different practices
tho both go by the same name of perambulation

the new hampshire style
as previously reported by jesper
is performed only from one tripoint to the next by commissioners
from both of the 2 towns that share the pair of tripoints

so there each town must actually perform individual
perambulations with each of its several neighbors during every 7
year cycle

the massachusetts & connecticut style
such as you have performed
is a complete but unilateral circumambulation of a town
& according to
http://cholesbury.com/beatbounds.htm
this is apparently the more traditional method
since meetings with perambulators of neighboring towns might
precipitate disagreements & altercations
& so were to be avoided

but the tripoints were always given special acknowledgement

modern practice of both methods often seems to involve a lot of
skipping between stones rather than actually perambulating the
entire boundary in the original & true meaning of the term

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@b...> wrote:
> I actually have first-hand experience with this activity.  My wife
and
> I were appointed by the local Board of Selectmen to
"perambukate and
> mark" the bounds of our town in 2000.  Here is the report we
submitted:
>
>
http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/hollistonboundary/index.htm
l
>
> BJB


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