[Talk-us] New York, Ellis Island Boundary

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun May 10 16:29:07 UTC 2015


On 5/10/15 11:57 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 5/10/15 11:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    puzzled about
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37573502#map=18/40.69986/-74.03910
>>
>> is this really part of today's political boundary, then "(historical)"
>> should perhaps be removed from the name. And is there any significance
>> to the funny shape (an owl sitting on a branch?) or should it rather be
>> aligned with the coastline?
>>
> this looks like a carve out, a tiny enclave of NYS/NYC surrounded by
> New Jersey. i'll look at the newer TIGER data in a little bit and see
> what i can see there.
now that i have thought about it, Ellis Island is mostly fill. the political
boundary likely matches the original waterline of the island and it
was simply never changed. as it was operated by the Federal government,
there was probably little motivation to do so.

richard

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