[PRCo] Re: Pondering the Planning Bureau maps

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, robert netzlof wrote:

> --- Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:
>
>> In general they have sheets from 1920s/30s for closer in stuff, 40s
>> for
>> further out stuff, and in some cases revisions from 50s/60s mostly
>> where
>> parkways appeared.
>
> I'm puzzled. In the margin of each sheet one finds the number of
> adjoining sheets. Out in the fringes, those numbers still appear
> calling out neighboring sheets which:
>
> 1) would be completely outside the city limits
>
> 2) are not available on the web site
>
> But I'm puzzled. If the sheets were a product of the city's Bureau of
> Planning, I can understand why they would not expend resources in
> compiling maps for areas outside the city. Given that, why assign
> sheet numbers for sheets which do not and would not exist?

In the event those areas were ever annexed?