[Talk-us] silly borders

Tue Mar 31 03:13:55 BST 2009

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dear Can-Americans,
>>
>> This is silly.  Four different lines for one border.
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>>
>> We're good neighbo(u)rs.  We should fix our fence.  Shouldn't each
>> border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?
>>
>> We should have a fence-mending party.
>>     
>
> Great.  Which one's correct?
>   

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!

Actually, it is the 49th parallel, West of Lake of the Woods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Treaty