Anyone interested in routes, maps, borders and boundaries etc?

[Mindful]

Can't find a thread on this stuff.

 

[JakeStarkey]

google driving distances from x to y

 

[OldLady]

Can't find a thread on this stuff.

I love maps. What area are you looking for?

 

[Mindful]

Anywhere and everywhere.

Latest to spark my interest was an account of the Russian North Korean border.

 

[leftwinger]

Anywhere and everywhere.

Latest to spark my interest was an account of the Russian North Korean border.

Here is a map for you. Maybe more dangerous than NK? Weird shape too. Sucks up a lot of Tax dollars to keep them "isolated and protected". Nice, freeway bypass all around. Their potholes get fixed. Need a new road? No problem there.

Edit: Google maps. A great site. You can do street view and see your old living areas.

 

[yiostheoy]

I bought a beautiful, new world atlas a couple of years ago and it is already obsolete. Every few years new nations appear out of ancient conflicts still seething.

As Wiki shows, even defining what a "nation" is gets complicated.

The UN defines 206 listed "states".

Of these 193 participate in the UN. The other 13 do not.

Palestine is disputed by Israel, and vice versa.

Vatican is treated as an "observer" not as a full member of the UN.

Abkhazi is claimed by Georgia.

Kosovo is claimed by Serbia.

Artsakh is claimed by Azerbaijan.

Cyprus has split unofficially.

Sahrawi is claimed by Morocco.

Somaliland is claimed by Somalia.

South Ossetia was liberated by Russia but still claimed by Georgia.

PRC claims Taiwan still.

Transnistria is claimed by Moldova.

Wiki is always a good start since it is updated most currently, but it is not really considered a solid resource since it is not a primary source.

But it is quick and dirty.

List of sovereign states - Wikipedia

 

[yiostheoy]

I also have a road atlas booklet for my State as well as each of the surrounding Rocky Mountain states, mostly for hunting trips, but also for backpacking trips without hunting as well. I have friends in nearby states who are not hunters but we like to go backpacking together.

These state road atlases also show all jeep trails and USFS (National Forests) lands as well as BLM (Bureau Of Land Management). This is where hunting is allowed in the USA.

 

[yiostheoy]

Anywhere and everywhere.

Latest to spark my interest was an account of the Russian North Korean border.

Here is a map for you. Maybe more dangerous than NK? Weird shape too. Sucks up a lot of Tax dollars to keep them "isolated and protected". Nice, freeway bypass all around. Their potholes get fixed. Need a new road? No problem there.

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if I catch anyone spamming too much they (singular possessive form) go onto the infamous iggy list.

 

[longknife]

Try Google Earth. It's a free download and has great pictures of the entire world. Also includes an option for Google Maps that gets you road maps.

 

[OldLady]

Tiny border with Russia--11 miles of land and 12 miles of water (Tumen River), according to Wikipedia. A lot of times Russia's border with NK isn't even mentioned.

 

[yiostheoy]

Wow !!!

There IS a little piece of Russia there on the NE.

 

[yiostheoy]

Here is a Google Earth shot of it:

 

[yiostheoy]

If you download Google Earth onto your computer you can find anything in the world, down to the gnat's eyelash.

 

[Mindful]

This one's interesting.

 

[OldLady]

The Friendship Bridge linking North Korea and Russia. Korea is in the foreground and Khasan is on the right. The tower on the left is in Chinese territory.

It looks like river delta bottom land, doesn't it? A lot of flooding in the Spring, I'll bet.

 

[OldLady]

This one's interesting.

What do the people living in that flat do? Shower in Belgium and eat dinner in Netherlands?

 

[yiostheoy]

Before I go buck deer hunting I always google-earth the trails I plan to hike to see where the deer might be hiding.

They normally hide in the daytimes and come out at sunset and feed then, and again at midnight, and again at 4 a.m., and again just before sunrise.

They sometimes frolic before going back to bed (bedding down) just after dawn.

 

[yiostheoy]

The Friendship Bridge linking North Korea and Russia. Korea is in the foreground and Khasan is on the right. The tower on the left is in Chinese territory.

It looks like river delta bottom land, doesn't it? A lot of flooding in the Spring, I'll bet.

All I know about this area of the world is that the Rooskies have a big naval base nearby.

It's where they keep half of their submarine fleet -- both the boomers and the A-boats.

 

[yiostheoy]

Probably less than a half -- most of the Russian fleet is deployed into the Atlantic.

 

[Mindful]

This one's interesting.

What do the people living in that flat do? Shower in Belgium and eat dinner in Netherlands?

Something like that.

The border doesn’t follow kerblines, as you’d expect in an urban setting. It runs through homes, shops and offices. It hits a building and emerges at an angle the other side of it. You can sit at a cafe table and your companion will be in another country. The result is a patchwork quilt of Dutch and Belgian islands. Check it out here.