On 16/6/20 7:43 am, Colin Smale wrote:
On 2020-06-15 23:14, barry b wrote:
Hi Folks, I made the below changes to rockall.
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I don't know the exact procedure here. I feel i didn't do it right.
Don't worry too much about "not doing it right", just about everybody
here has "been there done
On 2020-06-15 23:14, barry b wrote:
> Hi Folks, I made the below changes to rockall.
Thanks for engaging!
> The changes i've made are
> 1) Changed Rockall from Island to Rock
> 2) Removed the Administration boundary
>
> 1) Rockall is not a island. You could debate its a rock or islet but
I'm still a bit confused about this, because the circle rendered
around Rockall on OpenStreetMap is the 12nm limit of territorial
waters, not the 200nm EEZ. We don't render the EEZ on OpenStreetMap,
but as you point out, it is not in dispute that Rockall does not
extend the UK's EEZ. So I'm a bit
Hi Folks, I made the below changes to rockall.
The changes i've made are
1) Changed Rockall from Island to Rock
2) Removed the Administration boundary
1) Rockall is not a island. You could debate its a rock or islet but it cant
sustain human life.
References:
1) Wikipedia calls it a islet
2
I just pointed the user concerned to the signup page to this mailing
list, so he should be here soon! Further to my earlier message I will
not make any changes to Rockall until we have had the discussion.
Colin___
Talk-GB mailing list
On 2020-06-15 15:36, Mark Goodge wrote:
> I'd just revert it.
I'll give them until tomorrow to see if there is any further engagement.
Otherwise I will fix it up as place=islet and resurrecting the coastline
and admin boundaries.
Colin___
Talk-GB
On 15/06/2020 10:23, Colin Smale wrote:
A new mapper has changed the status of Rockall, removing it from the UK
admin boundaries. As I understand it Rockall is accepted as UK territory
although it can't be used as a baseline to extend the EEZ. I contacted
the mapper with a changeset comment
I also note that the editor changed Rockall from “island” to “bare rock”, and
that Colin has question this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/86624262
For what it’s worth, I suggest the correct tag for Rockall is “islet”:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dislet This is
In situations like this I'd invite the new mapper to discuss things more
widely (which Colin has already done on
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/86624359 ) and then revert the
changes pending any discussion here.
The new mapper is already aware of the changeset discussion (they've
Probably? I am not familiar with the disputed territories process for Osm.
It’s a weird one as only the U.K. has claimed sovereignty. Others don’t accept
the claim, but also haven’t made a sovereignty claim themselves. So at the
moment, the U.K. is the administrator - and there is an absence of
A new mapper has changed the status of Rockall, removing it from the UK
admin boundaries. As I understand it Rockall is accepted as UK territory
although it can't be used as a baseline to extend the EEZ. I contacted
the mapper with a changeset comment and their motivation is based on
"fixing the
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