[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] silly borders

James Fee james.fee at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 03:16:47 BST 2009


Someone get the text to the Treaty of 1818 and figure that one out...  I
don't seem to have my copy ready by my computer.

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James Fee
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  We should fix our fence.
>
> Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [1]
>
> > Shouldn't each
> > border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?
>
> around whom does it go clockwise?
>
> Shouldn't the entirety of a country's (state/province/county) be a
> (multi)polygon for area?
> Can that be emulated by relations, and would that be provided
> abstraction or a pain in the punctuation for users of the data?
>
> can the relation have a REVERSE option so that the entire outline can
> be traced for a green's theorem planimeter area computation?
>
> If there's an island between the lines, can it declare independence? [2]
>
> > We should have a fence-mending party.
>
> We want the fence nice and porous all summer  until after WorldCon
> Montreal. [3]
>
> [1] http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html
> [2] http://isbn.nu/9780448054476
> [3] http://www.anticipationsf.ca/
>
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> Bill
> n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com
>
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