For the sake of simplicity, you're right. To represent these territories using regions, we'd need tags that would essentially duplicate the meaning of existing ones.
So I see 2 reasonably equivalent solutions at the moment that would affect the roles of boundary relations: "dejure" and "defacto" roles for boundary ways, or "claimed" and "disputed" roles (or any similar word) for an area (possibly also relation). I can see pros and cons in both approaches, both for manual mapping and for data consumption in apps (particularly in the renderer). On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Fernando Trebien < > fernando.treb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or, disputed territories wouldn't even have an admin_level tag and >> would be mapped as regions (which always seemed to me as a generic >> "fallback" for things that do not fit a specific standard): >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dregion >> > > How do you tell what kind of boundary is being disputed then? I can think > of tribal national boundaries, state boundaries, city limits, and national > boundaries in North America that have disputed locations and territory > under contest. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law)
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