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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 03:27, Martin Søndergaard <<a href="mailto:sondergaard246@gmail.com">sondergaard246@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>most interesting discussion I have seen on this list yet. And I want to give a few of my thoughts as well.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Martin!</div><div><br></div><div>Excellent post & I agree entirely with what you say.</div><div><br></div><div>As I mentioned a while back (may have been in another of Ander's threads?) - we draw an area & say that this is a town / village, but what about that house 300m down the road, & the one 500m beyond that? Do those people think they live in this town?</div><div><br></div><div>My own city is a major built-up area, but as you go out into the surrounding country, you come to suburbs with acre / <hectare house blocks, then a bit further there are multi acre / hectare blocks, but where does the "city" end?</div><div><br></div><div></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 03:58, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">natural=glacier with ~56,000 entries</li><li style="margin-left:15px">place=archipelago with ~1,300 entries</li></ul>These three are not at all fuzzy, in the mathematical sense. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd question a couple of those thanks, Joseph.</div><div><br></div><div>Glaciers are constantly moving, so how can they not be fuzzy, especially now with climate change apparently melting Arctic glaciers at an ever increasing rate, so their boundaries must be constantly changing?</div><div><br></div><div>& with archipelagos, & bigger island nations, whose boundaries are drawn across the open ocean - how can we be precise about that line?</div><div><br></div><div>
Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme<br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></div>