Re: [MDOsprey] American White Pelican 8/19/99

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On 8/20/99 11:20 AM Robert (Rob) Hilton said

>>For an intersting satelite photo, showing the DC/MD line, set your web 
>>browser to 
>>
>><http://terraserver.microsoft.com/advfind.asp>
>>
>>Enter the following
>>
>>Latitude North 38 degrees, 47 minutes, 50 seconds
>>Longitude West 77 degrees, 01 minutes, 53 seconds
>
>Hi Elliot, 
>
>Thanks for the photo URL.  The superimposed DC boundary line is placed
>incorrectly, however.  As several people have said, the line starts at
>Jones Point just south of the Beltway.  On this photo the line appears to
>start in the middle of the mouth of Hunting Creek!  It is too far to the
>left by roughly an inch (and several hundred feet).  My (still packed?)
>USGS topo map for Washington, the DeLorme atlas (based on USGS maps) and
>the ADC map all show the correct border.  

I agree.


Elliot Kirschbaum
Baltimore, MD USA
mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net

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