On 09/05/11 14:32, Christoph Donges wrote: > My father, who lived on a property adjoining the river near Texas for > many years says he always believed the boarder ran down the center of > the river. > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:07 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com > <mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 9 May 2011 13:39, 4x4falcon <i...@4x4falcon.com > <mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com>> wrote: > > I'd say the centre of the main channel as the only sign I've ever > seen there > > is half way across a bridge. > > The bridge at Texas has the sign on the southern side of the bridge, > but the 'Welcome to Qld/NSW' sign is on the northern side.
I originally was not going to buy into this discussion, as I then clearly had no idea. However, since, I have found this document: http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/surveying/pdf/qld_nsw_border.pdf - encouragingly titled: "Redefining the Queensland–New South Wales Border: Guidelines for Surveyors". To save you ploughing through it, the lightning summary seems to be since 1946 the mid-line of the river is the answer you want. (If you want to get technical, it should be the median line of the riverbanks as they existed in 1859... the big catch is, they were not actually surveyed then, so the dispute had to be resettled in 1946, and confirmed in 1993, and reconfirmed in 2008.... For the keen: Section 4.3 esp. item 3: "Case history 3: River boundary" regarding past legal disputes; and Section 5.2 "River Section" are the relevant parts. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au