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Beyond Four Corners, USA

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: Greg Hurst
11 Replies

Terrific contribution!

I have an interest in multipoints since there is one near where I live where six borders meet; if we discard one of them (which is a mere boundary of a property), it is definitely a quintipoint, although in administrative terms the units (parishes and precinct) are no longer officially in use. This brings up two important points if we want to assess the incidence of multipoints: (i) administrative borders change, so we should not forget to consider older maps; (ii) the lowest level of administrative units to consider must be property borders. It would, for example, be interesting to run this for cadastral maps. Even if we ignore property borders, administrative subdivision of land varies between countries, which affects the incidence of multipoints.

An unrelated feature is the geographic nature of multipoint: it is of course not a coincidence that many are located on mountain tops. At least at a lower administrative level, lakes are obvious places for many borders to join (quadripoint in lakes are common on Swedish cadastral maps). From the land-surveyors perspective, prominent points in the terrain were preferentially chosen, which is why islands in lakes and mountains were often used where several properties met. When I check cadastral maps of Lake Sommen (county of Östergötland), there are 2 quintipoints and 4 quadripoints on islands. There is also 1 quintipoint in the middle of a narrow strait. For comparison, there are 3 quintipoints and 6 quadripoints located in water. In total: 6 quintipoints and 10 quadripoints in a single lake.

POSTED BY: Per Milberg

I just run into this post again and again was amazed how cool this is, thank you! I am trying to reproduce the 10-point map in Italy, but I do not think I understand how to get geo-polygons for them. Any advice @Greg Hurst ?

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov
Posted 3 years ago

I think the issue is that ChildrenMultiPoints needed a second argument. I edited the post to give a default value of 4. The following now returns a 10-point and a quadripoint:

ChildrenMultiPoints[Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Catania", "Sicily", "Italy"}]]

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Does this work for you now?

POSTED BY: Greg Hurst

I've always loved finding geographic oddities. This was fun to read, thanks Chip.

POSTED BY: Douglas Smith

Very nice post, with interesting results.

Posted 9 years ago

Interesting and fun topic. Well explained and worked out. Thank you.

POSTED BY: Dave Middleton

Wonderful! First class job! One of the best posts I've seen here!

POSTED BY: Rand Baldwin
Posted 9 years ago

I visited the four corners area of the USA a few months ago. It isn't close to anything, so you really have to want to see it to make the trip. Couples who go usually have their picture taken kissing at the four corner point. Native Americans sell their wares along the circumference of a large circle surrounding the four corners.

This is a great post and I really enjoyed it very much. Thanks for a terrific job!!!

POSTED BY: John Snyder

Just logged in to give it a thumbs up! Very nice! Great work!

POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
Posted 9 years ago

Thanks!

POSTED BY: Greg Hurst

enter image description here - another post of yours has been selected for the Staff Picks group, congratulations !

We are happy to see you at the top of the "Featured Contributor" board. Thank you for your wonderful contributions, and please keep them coming!

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