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dolariThis was my weekend in a nutshell:
The Camino Real maps so far
From North to South
Bexar County (San Antonio)
Atascosa County (Poteet - Jourdanton - Charlotte)
Frio County
La Salle County (Cotulla)
Green lines are where the 1681 Camino Arriba/Lower Presidio Road are still drivable on public roads. Red is where the road is nondrivable on private land. I did San Antonio south, since mostly everything north of San Antonio would be green (not to mention it's mostly Texas 21).
No one really knows where the roads are south of San Antonio, because around 1870, the railroads wiped most of the older roadways off the map. By 1900 when roadways became important again, they almost always followed the railroad right-of-ways. The Northern road was very important, the southern road was forgotten.
The mapping uses the VN Zively copies I bought from the Texas State library. VN Zively walked the entire path, taking LOGO-like instructions (Forward 1235 feet, turn 62 degreen west of south), making it easy to replot his path into a computer. From there, that path is shrunk and force-fit to anchors that still exist (the OSR markers, turns in existing roads, rivers and creeks). The result is an approximate routing (it's not perfect - the fewer the anchors, the less accurate the route) through the counties.
Also, if you look at Bexar County, you'll see that "S" curve I was talking about. I'm now convinced this is NOT the Camino Real route VN Zively mapped, but a cut-off to the missions from San Pedro Springs to Cassin.
Bexar and Atascosa are 2MB each, La Salle is 500k and Frio is 400k.
The Camino Real maps so far
From North to South
Bexar County (San Antonio)
Atascosa County (Poteet - Jourdanton - Charlotte)
Frio County
La Salle County (Cotulla)
Green lines are where the 1681 Camino Arriba/Lower Presidio Road are still drivable on public roads. Red is where the road is nondrivable on private land. I did San Antonio south, since mostly everything north of San Antonio would be green (not to mention it's mostly Texas 21).
No one really knows where the roads are south of San Antonio, because around 1870, the railroads wiped most of the older roadways off the map. By 1900 when roadways became important again, they almost always followed the railroad right-of-ways. The Northern road was very important, the southern road was forgotten.
The mapping uses the VN Zively copies I bought from the Texas State library. VN Zively walked the entire path, taking LOGO-like instructions (Forward 1235 feet, turn 62 degreen west of south), making it easy to replot his path into a computer. From there, that path is shrunk and force-fit to anchors that still exist (the OSR markers, turns in existing roads, rivers and creeks). The result is an approximate routing (it's not perfect - the fewer the anchors, the less accurate the route) through the counties.
Also, if you look at Bexar County, you'll see that "S" curve I was talking about. I'm now convinced this is NOT the Camino Real route VN Zively mapped, but a cut-off to the missions from San Pedro Springs to Cassin.
Bexar and Atascosa are 2MB each, La Salle is 500k and Frio is 400k.
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First time I've seen Michael Badnarik since he started his help-build-the-party presidential race, let alone after he discovered to his shock that he actually GOT our nomination (the two leading candidates (who each had claim to fame -- one in Hollywood and the other in talk radio) eliminated each other giving it to him by default -- he's now the first candidate we've had for awhile that has had no negative baggage within the party, even if he has no fame other than being our candidate).
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Date: 2004-06-16 04:10 am (UTC)Back in the 40s, all of TX 21 was signed with TX OSR to San Marcos. I can only guess they truncated it to that small part to save on signage.