I made such a proposal a while ago; it got majority approval but not the supermajority required. At the time, I said I don't think a supermajority is possible. However, my original proposal would, I believe, lend considerable strength to the OTG rule, especially in hot spots like Crimea.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Mapping_disputed_boundaries On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:02 PM Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > There's two different concepts at play, that OSM does not currently tag > well when in conflict. There's national sovereignty, which is a political > concept which in large part depends on international recognition. And > there's de facto control, which could result from military actions. For > most of the world, these two are in sync. In Crimea, they are not, and > there is a dispute. > > There are so many varieties of disputed territories in the world, it's > hard to come up with a system that works for every single situation. And > tagging structures for disputes could certainly get complicated. However, I > believe that the OSM community could come up with something that works well > enough for Crimea, that it would be broadly agreed that the situation is > represented accurately. > > That tagging may not work for every single dispute in the world, but the > tags could evolve as well as they are implemented in practice. > > -Mikel > > > > On Friday, February 7, 2020, 01:38:23 PM EST, Tomas Straupis < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Note, that I'm opposing OTG rule application to non-physical objects > as that is philosophically impossible as well as too unpracticall. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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