As you will have noticed by now, it's complicated. There is no "truth" agreed to by both sides, so we may need two boundaries: one according to Spain, and one according to Gib/UK. In between is "disputed territory". How do we handle that in other cases?
http://ersilia.net/ET2050_library/docs/med/gibraltar.pdf In practice it seems the two sides tolerate each other, as long as there is no clear provocation. On 2015-04-07 21:45, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder about the territorial waters of Gibraltar. > > I noticed today that a raw sketch of these waters had been in OSM for a > while but then removed by someone, putting the border of the country > exactly along the coastline. This does not sit well with Gibraltar's own > claims (3nm). I reverted to the old version but what we have now is > neither here nor there. > > I read up on things on Wikipedia but I'm really none the wiser. It > appears that there are UK military ships down there and that they > occasionally chase away a Spanish vessel so they do seem to have > "control" of at least some part of the sea. > > Is there anyone who can speak to the situation on the ground, ideally > without being a Spanish or British nationalist and therefore potentially > biased? > > Should we add the full 3nm territorial water line to OSM? > > Bye > Frederik
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