Possibly useful context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_v._New_York
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > [email protected] > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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