The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 days agoIn case you need something to ruin your morningmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down15
arrow-up1222arrow-down1imageIn case you need something to ruin your morningmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoOk, this is worse.
minus-squaretoholio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThis isn’t zoomed in enough to show that the squiggly border is the middle of the river between SA and Vic. but the south bank of the river between NSW and Vic.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoLooks like it follows a river, so I’ll give it a pass. The Michigan one is just dumb.
minus-squaretoholio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIt follows the middle of the river for part of it and the southern bank for the rest.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoWait, why the southern bank?
minus-squaretoholio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThere was a legal case involving the wrongful death of someone in a boat that needed the boundary better defined for jurisdictional reasons and some older documents said “the whole watercourse” was part of NSW: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1980/11.html
Ok, this is worse.
This isn’t zoomed in enough to show that the squiggly border is the middle of the river between SA and Vic. but the south bank of the river between NSW and Vic.
Looks like it follows a river, so I’ll give it a pass. The Michigan one is just dumb.
It follows the middle of the river for part of it and the southern bank for the rest.
Wait, why the southern bank?
There was a legal case involving the wrongful death of someone in a boat that needed the boundary better defined for jurisdictional reasons and some older documents said “the whole watercourse” was part of NSW: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1980/11.html