This is correct, the island is part of NY, but the water is part of NJ, when they made the island bigger, the new land was in NJ.
Similar to how Delaware has the entire Delaware Bay in its boundaries. They added some fill to the NJ side, and now there's a piece of Delaware connected to New Jersey: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/39.6142/-75.5635 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Point On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > Possibly useful context: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_v._New_York > > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> > 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 >> >> -- >> rwe...@averillpark.net >> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting >> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux >> Java - Web Applications - Search >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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