Editing Border (section)

=== Fiat borders ===
A generalization of the idea of geometric borders is the idea of [[:wikt:fiat|fiat]] boundaries by which is meant any sort of boundary that does not track an underlying ''bona fide'' physical discontinuity (''fiat'', [[Latin]] for "let it be done", a decision). Fiat boundaries are typically the product of human demarcation, such as in demarcating electoral districts or postal districts.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Barry |date=1995 |chapter-url=http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/drawing.html |chapter=On Drawing Lines on a Map |editor1-first=A. U. |editor1-last=Frank |editor2-first=W. |editor2-last=Kuhn |editor3-first=D. M. |editor3-last=Mark |title=Spatial Information Theory. Proceedings of COSIT 1995 |location=Berlin/Heidelberg/Vienna/New York/London/Tokyo |publisher=[[Springer Verlag]] |pages=475–484 |access-date=2017-01-03 |archive-date=2019-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209154942/http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/drawing.html |url-status=live }}</ref>