Making a river your border is fun! Because rivers change their courses all the time. Fun fact, while Missouri is generally on the west side of the Mississippi River and Illinois is on the east side, the town of Kaskaskia, IL is actually on the west side. You can walk from Missouri to Kaskaskia without getting your feet wet, but you can't get from Kaskaskia to the rest of Illinois without using a boat.
IMO river borders should automatically change with the river. If you're going to make your border a river, commit to it. Don't just draw a line on a map where the river currently is and say that's the border.
This is why borders should be based on watersheds. It drives me insane whenever I look at a map of counties and it's just straight lines through dozens of topographic features that would make sense as borders. Like the native Hawaiians who administered land based on ahupua'a because they correctly recognized water as the foundation of all life.
I think they will in the global communist revolution lol, I really think all states, nations all those borders will dissolve and people will live in bioregions likely mostly defined by watershed. It's the thing that makes sense to me, all your agriculture is defined by your bioregion especially if we try to grow food and transport it way more sustainably. All your timber or other construction materials will be defined by the vernacular of what you can get easily and sustainably in the bioregion. People will think with a global consciousness but I think people will probably define themselves as like "Cascadian" or "Mediterranean" or "Wallacean" (probably have a local word for that one).
Making a river your border is fun! Because rivers change their courses all the time. Fun fact, while Missouri is generally on the west side of the Mississippi River and Illinois is on the east side, the town of Kaskaskia, IL is actually on the west side. You can walk from Missouri to Kaskaskia without getting your feet wet, but you can't get from Kaskaskia to the rest of Illinois without using a boat.
IMO river borders should automatically change with the river. If you're going to make your border a river, commit to it. Don't just draw a line on a map where the river currently is and say that's the border.
And if the river puts you on the other side of the river, you’re just a part of that side now.
Exactly.
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This is why borders should be based on watersheds. It drives me insane whenever I look at a map of counties and it's just straight lines through dozens of topographic features that would make sense as borders. Like the native Hawaiians who administered land based on ahupua'a because they correctly recognized water as the foundation of all life.
Yeah, but how are you supposed to lie to natives who use natural boundaries if you don't use totally made up surveying maps
I think they will in the global communist revolution lol, I really think all states, nations all those borders will dissolve and people will live in bioregions likely mostly defined by watershed. It's the thing that makes sense to me, all your agriculture is defined by your bioregion especially if we try to grow food and transport it way more sustainably. All your timber or other construction materials will be defined by the vernacular of what you can get easily and sustainably in the bioregion. People will think with a global consciousness but I think people will probably define themselves as like "Cascadian" or "Mediterranean" or "Wallacean" (probably have a local word for that one).
Kaskaskia was also once the capital of illinois, for literally no reason.
Clearly a compromise staging ground in case Illinois decides to invade Missouri again.