Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> writes: > You are correct. The official Monterey County GIS file from [1] has > the boundary at the shoreline, whereas OSM has it going out into the > ocean, see https://imgur.com/a/aCMROQZ <https://imgur.com/a/aCMROQZ> > (OSM in orange, Official GIS in dark gray). > > I don’t know all coastal counties have their official boundaries at the > shoreline, but OSM has them all reaching into the ocean. [2] > I also don’t know if there is some convention in OSM (US) to have > coastal country boundaries match up with the higher level boundary. If > there is perhaps we may need to revisit?
This is tricky business. Generally, the jurisdiciton of the state seems to go to 3 nmi (east and west coasts). However, whether those state lands are in any town or county is an interesting question. https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Documents/OceanLawSearch/Summary%20of%20Law%20-%20Submerged%20Lands%20Act.pdf http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/czm/moris/metadata/moris_sla_arc.htm In Massachusetts, towns and counties do include the state lands. I would recommend looking up California law and asking this question in particular. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
