I hope for your sake that county lines in Missouri are better defined than they are in upstate New York. There are some county lines in the Adirondacks that are still shown as 'indefinite' on the state maps because they've never been formally surveyed and monumented. In the places where the land is all State Forest and timber tracts belonging to Finch-Pruyn and International Paper, nobody much cares where the line is.
When the Adirondack Survey tried to find the SE corner of Franklin County, there was a 900 foot error of closure, giving rise to the bent corner at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/44.1352/-74.0731. The surveyor who struck the modern line in the 1870's (reporting his 900 foot error of closure) found two previous surveys of the 18th century land grand line that became the county boundary - about 4500 feet apart! (And neither of the two previous surveys actually succeeded in striking and monumenting the entire line.) Since most of the land is uninhabited, and what isn't forbidding mountains is sucking swamp, it's just never been worth anyone's time, expense and danger to establish formal borders. When I'm working on cadastral data from that part of the world, I tend just to ignore topological inconsistencies unless they're more than a few hundred feet or actually located within a village. I still do want to track down the problem at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/44.2421/-73.9544 - that overlap between John Brown Farm and the state forest can't be right. I just haven't had the bandwidth to pursue it. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us