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> On 4. Aug 2020, at 17:24, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Looking at the Phillipines and Indonesia, the baseline has very little 
> relation to the physical geographical tide lines, since it merely connects 
> the outer edges of islands in the archipelago.
> 
> Similarly, in Uruguay and Argentina, the local governments have defined the 
> baseline as far out to sea as possible, so that they can claim a larger area 
> of ocean as an exclusive economic zone. This should not influence tagging in 
> OpenStreetMap, which needs to be based on real, verifiable, physical 
> characteristics.


+1, similarly in Italy, the baseline is defined through (relatively few) 
coordinates in a law, which is located always on the most outer points of the 
land or on islands, it has few to do with the coastline. For example the Gulf 
of Taranto is completely included.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/39.813/17.595

Cheers Martin 
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