Re: [Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-28 Thread Rory McCann
(Some of this is on the wiki) On 28/11/2018 06:39, Johnparis wrote: I don't think the notion of "according_to" is viable unless it is restricted to the two disputing parties. (Three-way disputes can be simplified into three two-way disputes.) This is why I like according_to:XX=yes/no. It

Re: [Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-27 Thread Johnparis
Thanks for this, Rory. I'll add it as a comment to the active proposal ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Mapping_disputed_boundaries ). I don't think the notion of "according_to" is viable unless it is restricted to the two disputing parties. (Three-way disputes can be

Re: [Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 27/11/2018 23:01, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: This proposal has several problems: 1) Too many new relations, up to 180 per border or whatever the number of independent states has reached. It's a concern (I've made similar points about languages in the past) but in this case I don't think that

Re: [Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-27 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Rory, thanks for tackling this. You might want to re-upload your proposal to the wiki, as it does appear to be borked at the moment. I think we should not store undisputed territories in the same relation as the disputed ones. Lets just store the disputed regions as individual relations, e.g.

Re: [Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-27 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
This proposal has several problems: 1) Too many new relations, up to 180 per border or whatever the number of independent states has reached. 2) OSM is for “real, current” data - Claimed borders are not real. - Many old claims have never been officially surrendered 3) “Don’t map your local

[Tagging] My proposal for disputed country borders

2018-11-27 Thread Rory McCann
This is my suggestion for how to map disputed/claimed borders. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ClaimedBorders (but I appear to have broken the wiki). This proposal is simple. Map the claimed border of a country according to another country as another regular