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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jul 30, 2020, 09:44 by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>in my view, the EU is not an administrative body with a border and many<br></div><div>parts (countries), but instead the countries have made a contract to<br></div><div>form the EU.<br></div></blockquote><div>EU is in a weird state where it is sort of organization of countries<br></div><div>sort of administrative body with borders.<br></div><div><br></div><div>see mentioned Lisbon treaty see also<br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Border_and_Coast_Guard_Agency">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Border_and_Coast_Guard_Agency</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I would therefore object to mapping the EU as an entity with a boundary;<br></div></blockquote><div>I am not opposing it and it seems defensible.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I know there's a tendency among some mappers to try and map<br></div><div>multipolygons or administrative boundaries for anything that has a name,<br></div><div>but that practice is not helpful. I don't even dare to look but I<br></div><div>wouldn't be surprised if some helpful soul has meanwhile decided to map<br></div><div>"the Atlantic", "the Pacific", or "Eurasia", assembling thousands of<br></div><div>little coastline pieces into giant relations in painstaking, week-long<br></div><div>work... sigh.<br></div></blockquote><div>Unlike such objects EU has (AFAIK) well defined border, matching<br></div><div>existing administrative boundaries, so problems inherent in<br></div><div>mapping fuzzy objects are not present.<br></div> </body>
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