there is already a proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/DisputedTerritories
m. On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The subject of disputed country borders came up on help.osm.org > again[1], specifically about India and the Kashmir area. There might be > a way to solve this issue. Currently OSM tags the de facto country > borders. But what if we also mapped the borders of country X according > to country Y? > > In this case, you could map "the border of India according to India", > and "the border of Pakistan according to India", and "the border of > Pakistan according to Pakistan" and "the border of India according to > Pakistan". The "border of country X according to country Y" is > unambiguous, just check what country Y claims. > > Then, if someone wants to make a map aimed for country X, we can tell > them they can just draw "country borders according to country X, and if > that doesn't exist, use regular borders". > > This is similar to multilingual names, where name:YY is "The name of X > in language YY". One suggested approach to draw maps in another language > is to load it all in postgres, then do a SQL query to change the names. > The same approach could work with country border. "Import with > osm2pgsql, then run this query" > > What's the best way to tag this? boundary:claimed=administrative > admin_level:claimed=2 claimed_by=IN name=Pakistan ISO3166-1=PK for > "boundary of Pakistan claimed by India" > > Having a subkey of boundary=administrative administrative=claimed is > subpar IMO, because many applications look for boundary=administrative > admin_level=2 to get all countries, and they would break. > > Thoughts? Feedback? Praise? > > Rory > > > [1] > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49587/indias-administartive-boundary-issue > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
