Jul 30, 2020, 09:44 by frede...@remote.org: > in my view, the EU is not an administrative body with a border and many > parts (countries), but instead the countries have made a contract to > form the EU. > EU is in a weird state where it is sort of organization of countries sort of administrative body with borders. see mentioned Lisbon treaty see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Border_and_Coast_Guard_Agency > I would therefore object to mapping the EU as an entity with a boundary; > I am not opposing it and it seems defensible. > I know there's a tendency among some mappers to try and map > multipolygons or administrative boundaries for anything that has a name, > but that practice is not helpful. I don't even dare to look but I > wouldn't be surprised if some helpful soul has meanwhile decided to map > "the Atlantic", "the Pacific", or "Eurasia", assembling thousands of > little coastline pieces into giant relations in painstaking, week-long > work... sigh. > Unlike such objects EU has (AFAIK) well defined border, matching existing administrative boundaries, so problems inherent in mapping fuzzy objects are not present.
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