<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Michael</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I believe this section of the line is the one is dispute, it's in a separate file from the State Dept: http://rockburger.com/openstreetmap/state/New_Abyei_non-56_line_part.zip</span></div><div><span></span></div><div>Question is, how do we tag this? We need to mark the border as disputed politically (but not disputed by editors). Similar lines in Kashmir, etc. <br>I had thought previously that borders could be localized, but that might overcomplicate things.<br><br>-Mikel<br> </div><div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times
new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Krämer <ohrosm@googlemail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 31, 2011 5:33 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSM-talk] South Sudan: Update border from DoS data<br></font><br>
Hi,<br><br>in a post [1] by Mikel end of September he proposed to use the data from US Department of State to update the border of South Sudan.<br><br>As the dataset look pretty accurate compared to natural features I have already started using it.<br><br>After noticing that the border of South Sudan is not updated yet I would volunteer to do so. Unfortunately this raises the question of the disputed area of Kafia Kingi in the west: The current border in OSM attributes this area to Sudan, the DoS dataset to South Sudan, not even indicating a dispute. There seems to be some uncertainty on where the border should be (cf. [2]). Google Maps/Earth show both borders as disputed.<br><br>So I would like to bring up the question here, which border to use. From what I found in the list and wiki the current border in OSM has not necessarily based on detailed consideration but basicallay what had been available at the time.<br><br>Personally I would tend to use the
DoS border, but I'm definetly not an expert on neither South Sudan nor international borders.<br><br>Michael<br><br>[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060226.html<br>[2] http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>