On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Eric Sibert <courr...@eric.sibert.fr> wrote:
> I think a good test case for testing if this can handle ongoing and complex >> conflicts would be Kashmir, as it's currently five-ways disputed between >> Pakistan, India, China, a Kashmir separatist/freedom/independence >> movement, >> and recently displaced-from-Afghanistan irregular Islamic fundamentalist >> forces. >> > > I would be cautious about not stabilized conflicts and therefore exclude > the last group and just focus on the first four claimers. In the same idea, > I would not try to describe the situation in East Ukraine. > OK, for KISS purposes, might limit it to the first three, as the latter two aren't formally recognized; the fourth group claims the Northern Areas in Pakistan and Kashmir in India; and the first four find a mutual enemy in the remaining group (which unilaterally claims the entire planet as it's rightful territory and as such is amorphous bordering on existential and not rationally geographically defined). > First question : can you draw current de facto borders? The northern part > of India/Pakistan border? > > Second question : can you draw areas with uniform claims and de facto > situation inside? I guess I misunderstand the proposal; I was thinking the most extreme claim for each of the three would be drawn as being "within" the claimant, with the outermost boundaries of the conflict region making up a multipolygon. Basically a geographic Venn diagram.
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