This is pretty interesting:
https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/
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A map of Europe if all separatist movements were successful
http://imgur.com/CyJAT82
Some of these separatist movements are more serious than others. For example, the Mercian separatist movement appears to be one guy with a Geocities-era website.
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Originally posted by gh View Postthe thread theme of "fun" doesn't exactly apply here, but this is informative: more than a century of lynchings in the U.S.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...9&kwp_1=560115Last edited by jeremyp; 03-30-2017, 04:37 PM.
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Originally posted by gh View Postthe thread theme of "fun" doesn't exactly apply here, but this is informative: more than a century of lynchings in the U.S.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...9&kwp_1=560115
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the thread theme of "fun" doesn't exactly apply here, but this is informative: more than a century of lynchings in the U.S.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...9&kwp_1=560115
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Originally posted by tandfman View PostHow do you define "straight", other than by longitude, given that the world is not flat?
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That name the states deal ( for me at least) was easy ( 50/50 ) ... particularly because Colorado and Wyoming did not have dual choices of either for either of them. NM and AZ had a dual choice for one of them, so that took a closer look. Ditto for ND and SD.
As to the phrase "rectangular" for CO and WY, not quite so... they, like most similar N-to S boundaries, are longitudinal, meaning these sides are arcs.
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How do you define "straight", other than by longitude, given that the world is not flat?
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Originally posted by gh View Post
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Newly unclassified CIA maps. Don't know if we've done this.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciagov...7674854602812/
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Up close there are many oddities in state boundaries. When the oil biz reached the Texas panhandle in the early 20th century they discovered many "vacancies" between decades old surveys that were not accounted for.. enterprising drillers claimed them and there are hundreds of oil wells on these overlooked strips.
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Originally posted by lonewolf View PostOnly Co and WY are "identical" in shape with no wiggles in the border.
Heaven knows I'll never be able to work this into a conversation, so maybe hooking to your comment is the only way I'll be able to share this.
I enter a lot of addresses in my smartphone contacts as GPS coordinates. While I was snagging the Four Corners coordinates, I noted some deviations in Google Maps along the Utah-Colorado border. That got me curious, so I found a few references, including
http://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/surv...-utahs-border/
The 276-mile border between Utah and Colorado was the result of an 1879 survey. Although the survey hit the Wyoming line over a mile west of the expected point, the survey was accepted as official. (Considering the equipment of the day, this was pretty much spot on.) Subsequent work identified a westward one-mile error between mileposts 81 and 89 and another half-mile westward between 100 and 110.
Even though there are identified surveying errors, the official border remains the accepted 1879 survey, as Utah and Colorado have never acted to revise it.
On a much larger scale, check out the history of the Northwest Angle above Minnesota.Last edited by Master403; 03-04-2017, 02:55 AM.
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