- EGLYSD class b
Thanks to the unknown visitor to Borderbase, who submitted the entry http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=22
Jan 03, 2006 @ 21:49 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
wow nicely done & a pleasure to see the shots back on goal & the discussion back on target again & since all 3 ibs numbers 10 & 18 & 61 join brownlie in
Jan 03, 2006 @ 22:57 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
there is no mention in any of the relevant ibs numbers that the 1925 italian egyptian agreement establishing this tripoint or the 1934 italo british egyptian
Jan 05, 2006 @ 01:33 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
... definitely won t be WGS84 since that was not in use until 1984 (hence the 84 in its name). I suspect that the Egypt 1907 Datum might have been used - but
Jan 05, 2006 @ 02:54 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
nice stuff thanx & please look for quite a few inserts ahead ... hahaha you certainly may disallow me & i knew dat about 84 but i dont infer wgs84 should be
Jan 05, 2006 @ 04:51 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
While the EGLYSD tripoint has almost certainly never been surveyed according to any datum whatsoever, it seems likely that other segments of the EGLY
Jan 05, 2006 @ 05:44 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
& a very sweet dream indeed as well as a brilliant analysis & synthesis dear doctor but off the top of my head egsd even in the wadi halfa nile salient was
Jan 05, 2006 @ 06:56 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
& in daylight this keeps looking funnier for what i didnt realize last night is that the only 2 available border segments that we can use for implementing your
Jan 05, 2006 @ 17:23 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Could this be EGSD demarcation? http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575 &pic=ALL Who
Jan 05, 2006 @ 18:19 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Oh good - those pictures reappeared - they weren t there the other day so I wrote to the confluence.org coordinator for that region and that seems to have
Jan 05, 2006 @ 19:15 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Aha - here is the description of how confluence.org deal with confluences on borders (http://www.confluence.org/infoconf.php#owner). It appears that this
Jan 05, 2006 @ 19:47 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
most probably just an entering or welcome to sudan sort of sign since it just says the sudan in arabic on the north side there is no known egds demarcation &
Jan 05, 2006 @ 20:00 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
A quick googling did not find new material on EGSD demarcation, but I found this: http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/oldsite/EGYSUD/show4/P1.htm. But doesn’t the
Jan 05, 2006 @ 20:44 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
... true but please see below to help clarify what our discussion actually was or is about ... why a shame ... why would you like that ...
Jan 05, 2006 @ 21:06 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- SV: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
... funny i did too but why do you bring it in ... yes it says the sudan with the definite article written in the 2 arabic words as sudan pronounced ahss sudan
Jan 05, 2006 @ 21:20 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
I looked through the slide show on that site, and I haven t seen a sign yet! Where is it? Thanks, Lowell G. McManus Leesville, Louisiana, USA ... From:
Jan 05, 2006 @ 23:43 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
having also examined all these pix carefully myself earlier & on further reflection too & unless jesper wakes up to answer us directly i think you must be
Jan 06, 2006 @ 00:51 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
There are two sites that Jesper pointed us to. The sign was here http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=11575
Jan 06, 2006 @ 01:55 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Pictures 1 and 3 show a different side from picture 7 - apart from the leftmost character, which is the same on both sides, the words look to be completely
Jan 06, 2006 @ 02:04 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
right you are thanx the sudan a n d egypt ... ...
Jan 06, 2006 @ 02:20 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
... Actually I figured out that they were looking for desert locusts which just happen to inhabit the border region. _____ From: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Jan 06, 2006 @ 02:28 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
... ... so far so obvious but marked by what & how is of course the question just as not all signs
Jan 06, 2006 @ 03:11 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
oops & good i didnt mean to be gratuitously critical ... t=ms&k=Photographs&w1=Photographs&w2=Boundary& ... t=ms&k=Boundary&w1=Photographs&w2=Boundary&w3= ...
Jan 06, 2006 @ 03:12 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
According to my Egyptian neighbour the leftmost most symbol is interpreted as follows - the circle represents the number 5 and the dot a 0, thus together they
Jan 07, 2006 @ 02:49 - Hugh Wallis ("Hugh Wallis" <hugh@...>)
- RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
no i didnt say al sudan but as sudan which i still say & er figured you guys already knew how to read arabic numerals but now that you mention it maybe this is
Jan 07, 2006 @ 03:58 - aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
So, the south-facing side says Sudan and the north-facing one says Egypt. That seems more consistent with a border marker than with a sign for the
Jan 07, 2006 @ 04:31 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
or a shortcut to the guide & travel agent anyone http://www.comeseeegypt.com/midland.htm ... er how do you figure that
Jan 07, 2006 @ 05:42 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: EGLYSD class b
... oh ok right picture 3 good point
Jan 07, 2006 @ 05:55 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: EGLYSD class b
Actually, I used the shadows. Photo 3 shows the shady side of the marker. The members of the expedition face into the sun for the camera in photo 7. Lowell
Jan 07, 2006 @ 06:11 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@...>)
- please hold off on mohamed as i just wrote him myself
Jan 07, 2006 @ 13:38 - aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)