----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 10:53
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Poor border
mapping example and straight borders
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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