Hi, <br><br>Woah! 31 pages, I'm not that interested :-)<br><br>Anyway feel free to edit the border, and remove the Spratley's if you wish.<br><br>I had thought Wikipedia would have nice maps of all the countries borders, and lists of the co-ordinates, yet here we are in the 21st Century and people are still fighting over borders.<br>
<br>Cheers, Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com">seav80@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The borders are actually based on a treaty defined by the United<br>
States when they bought the Philippine islands and are specified by<br>
coordinates. You can learn more from here:<br>
<a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/articles/APLPJ_10.1_bautista.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/articles/APLPJ_10.1_bautista.pdf</a><br>
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The problem is that those coordinates are not in WGS84 and we don't<br>
know what geodetic system was used.<br>
<br>
Here's an older discussion on this mailing list about the border:<br>
<a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2010-March/001876.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2010-March/001876.html</a><br>
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Ian Haylock <<a href="mailto:haylockid@gmail.com">haylockid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Actually the part of the border covering the Spratly Islands has been there<br>
> for years, that's why I cant understand why no-one has finished the border<br>
> before now.<br>
><br>
> Though it did take me hours to find that one map showing the border, maybe<br>
> everyone else just gave up looking.<br>
><br>
> Cheers, Ian<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com">seav80@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I wonder if we'll have an edit war with neighboring countries over the<br>
>> Spratlys. :-P<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ian Haylock <<a href="mailto:haylockid@gmail.com">haylockid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I've just updated the Territorial border for the Philippines.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I used the map available here :<br>
>> > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ph_Territorial_Map.png" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ph_Territorial_Map.png</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > I don't know how to make this png a background in JOSM, so I just did a<br>
>> > best<br>
>> > guess for the points.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Hopefully I haven't messed up the relation doing this.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Hopefully now Mapfactors Navigator Free map generator should work<br>
>> > automatically.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If you haven't tried Navigator Free, it's worth a try, map rendering is<br>
>> > much<br>
>> > faster on my GPS than Garmin Mobile XT, which keeps my GPS running at<br>
>> > 100%<br>
>> > CPU usage.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Cheers, Ian<br>
>> ><br>
>> > P.S.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I know, I know, I forgot to change the tag for the changeset. I tried to<br>
>> > revert the changeset then re upload it with the correct tag, but just<br>
>> > got an<br>
>> > error :-( So I left it as it is.<br>
>> ><br>
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