ok jesper
another attractive question
& assuming chris is right about it being the curonian spit
which i do
then i figure you are talking maybe only 5km here
for the length you are asking us to surpass
& i dont know if that is even possible to do
but i have noticed that plru makes a valiant effort to go straight
for about 200km
& tho it is clearly a case of slightly too much vodka overall
there may well be a truly straight reach long enough to qualify
embedded somewhere within the nearly straight 200km reach
or at least that is where i would begin to look
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Schulz"
<23568@g...> wrote:
> its from the "kurische nehrung", i guess,
> regards, chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jesper Nielsen
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 4:01 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Poor border mapping example and
straight borders
>
>
> Somebody once asked and got no answer: "Is there any
straight line borders
> in Europe?". And offcourse the answer is "yes".
>
> For in between two points along a border a straight line is very
common and
> easy to find if you have two reference points and two markers
in the nature.
>
> Offcourse the asker meant "important" or "very long" straight
lines like on
> CAUS or EGLY. And then the answer is no, at least on
international borders.
>
> But does anybody know the longest straight line section of a
European
> border? Attached is my candidate, that also serve as an
example of poor
> mapping (in connection with my previous thread "Topomap:
EELVRY".
>
> Can anybody guess what border and what section this map is
from?
>
> Jesper
>
>
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