Just a thought: how about simply mapping each country's border so as to
include the disputed area?
Steve
On 31/10/2011 10:33, Michael Krämer wrote:
Hi,
in a post [1] by Mikel end of September he proposed to use the data
from US Department of State to update the border of South Sudan.
As the dataset look pretty accurate compared to natural features I
have already started using it.
After noticing that the border of South Sudan is not updated yet I
would volunteer to do so. Unfortunately this raises the question of
the disputed area of Kafia Kingi in the west: The current border in
OSM attributes this area to Sudan, the DoS dataset to South Sudan, not
even indicating a dispute. There seems to be some uncertainty on where
the border should be (cf. [2]). Google Maps/Earth show both borders as
disputed.
So I would like to bring up the question here, which border to use.
From what I found in the list and wiki the current border in OSM has
not necessarily based on detailed consideration but basicallay what
had been available at the time.
Personally I would tend to use the DoS border, but I'm definetly not
an expert on neither South Sudan nor international borders.
Michael
[1]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060226.html
[2]
http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/
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