That's why it was so surprising to see the imported USA and California borders in OSM running along the beach - surely we want to move them out to sea?
Currently the borders are marked with the 2 countries - do we need to allow "region:left=international" if it's a border with the ocean instead of another country? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Roland Olbricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * the coastline doesn't constitute the real border of the country > > Most countries just don't have their border on the coastline but claim a zone > of about 22.2 km (12 nautical miles). See e.g. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters > For example, this prevents that a ferry between the mainland and a nearby > island already gets an international ferry. So it might be desireable to have > as border rather a smoothend 12-nm-zone than the coastline. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
