On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that of all 193 UN member states, there's only one for which we > don't have international borders in our database (instead, a node tagged > place=country). That country is Tonga in the South Pacific. > > I have taken our existing Tonga coastline and computed a 12nm buffer around > that (after having read on the CIA world factbook that they have a 12nm > territorial waters claim), and prepared the following file with a boundary > relation that we could use to replace the country node: > > http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/proposed_tonga_boundary.osm > > I'm not 100% sure if my reasoning is correct; there is the case of the > Minerva reef which lies about 200km to the SW of Tonga and I read that Tonga > lays claim to that - but, as far as I understand, only EEC claim and not > territorial, so I guess it is correct to not include it in the country > boundary. > > I'm not normally in favour of doing imports but seeing that Tonga is really > the "odd one out" in the list of countries, maybe it is worth the effort to > fix that.
The only comment I would add is that it shouldn't replace the node. Other countries still have a node, sometimes added to the boundary relation with a role of "label." Probably mostly because mapnik renders country names from nodes, not relations. The US node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424317935 Toby _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
