On 2013-10-03 14:53, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2013/10/3 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com>

All the states or countries maps I've seen in my life used the
coastline. It does not mean that the sovereignty stops at the water
line. It's just a convention.

how many states or country maps have you seen in scale 1:1000?

All maps I have seen make a clear distinction between land and sea. Only a very small number of maps I've seen actually show borders on international waters.

So it all depends on what you want to show and how you visualise it. If you make a map of Germany or the Netherlands with one color within the borders in the sense of territorial waters, I think few people would recognise them. For the netherlands, you would have a smooth coastline without islands (Zeeland and Waddeneilanden).

Regards,
Maarten

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