On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org> wrote: > Kentucky's border along the Ohio River is one example: the border is > defined to be the low water mark of the Ohio-Indiana-Illinois bank as of > the 18th century [1], so it's not the centerline and not quite the > northern riverbank. Along Ohio's section of the river, all the islands > belong to Kentucky or West Virginia. > > [1] http://supreme.justia.com/us/444/335/case.html
So to be accurate, one has to go to county/state/judicial records individually if the higher res boundary data isn't made available somewhere online already? Adam > On 1/28/09 12:53 PM, Adam Killian wrote: >> I think there may be cases where one shore or the other is the boundary, >> not the centerline. Presumably, islands in a river are in one county or >> the other? >> > -- > Minh Nguyen<m...@zoomtown.com> > AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: m...@1ec5.org; Blog: http://notes.1ec5.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us