[OSM-talk] South Sudan, the world's newest Country

[Frederik Ramm]

I am here relaying an interesting message from Richard Cantwell of 
www.geographic.ie who had originally posted it to help.openstreetmap.org:

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Hi All,

As of today a new country has been born, South Sudan. You can see the 
general border of the country on The Guardian DataBlog site here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul/08/world-map-new-south-sudan

It looks like the UN will formally admit the country as a recognised 
state on the 14th July:

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-07-06-un-membership-seen-shortly-after-south-sudan-splits

If anybody has details of the exact border this might be a nice addition 
to the map, as I expect other online maps won't be updated for quite 
some time, but perhaps addition should be held off until formal 
ratification by the UN.

Thoughts?

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Richard

www.geographic.ie