<html><head></head><body>I would call this map vandalism and delete. <br>
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Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 3, 2017 6:51:27 PM EDT, Bradley White <theangrytomato@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Something a little bit different:<br /><br />The Republic of Molossia is a self-declared "micro-nation" located<br />near Dayton, NV, landlocked by the United States. The nation claims<br />full sovereignty from the United States; however, it is recognized by<br />neither the United States, nor any other country on Earth, as an<br />independent nation. You have probably heard about it before, since it<br />is one of the best-known examples of such a micro-nation in the US.<br /><br />Within the past few months, this "nation" has popped into OSM,<br />complete with sloppily implemented "admin_level=2" and<br />"boundary=national" tags, view-able here:<br /><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/39.32281/-119.53908">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/39.32281/-119.53908</a>. My<br />discussion point is whether this is a valid use of these tags. A<br />handful of quick searches about this topic didn't turn up anything for<br />me, so I'm assuming no precedent has been set yet. It is worth noting<br />that this is not the only micro-nation in the US.<br /><br />I'm not inclined to think these tags are valid. Otherwise, there's<br />nothing stopping me from calling my backyard its own nation, slapping<br />together a wikipedia article, and entering it into OSM as a<br />full-fledged nation. However, since they are still geographically<br />based entities of interest to the public, I think they are worth<br />mapping<br /><br />There is a proposal for disputed boundaries, but I don't think that's<br />valid either since there isn't really a dispute. The nation has gone<br />unacknowledged by the United States, and nothing has gone through the<br />legal process between the two nations (that I'm aware of) that could<br />constitute a "dispute". No other boundary tag is really applicable,<br />maybe a new "boundary=micronation" would work? De facto, US law still<br />applies in these "micronations", along with the law of whatever<br />jurisdictions the micronation belongs to, so I don't think an<br />admin_level tag is applicable.<br /><br /><hr /><br />Talk-us mailing list<br />Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>