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<p><font face="Verdana">Dear Andy, list members,<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Do you have or are there resources which we
can use to define these Median Lines and which cause no
licensing conflicts ?<br>
Do you have the intention to create a wiki page to describe this
issue and how you plan to implement it ?<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">If you need some help, I am very willing to
allocate some time to participate. As I have mapped 325 (mostly
administrative) boundaries already in JOSM.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></p>
<font face="Verdana">Bert Araali</font>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/02/2021 14:50, Andy Townsend
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:0e2e7d32-c074-4f69-b1ce-d10e592aab1f@gmail.com">On
03/02/2021 10:44, Andrew Davidson wrote:
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The Spanish law says that in the absence of an agreement with
another country, their territorial sea shall not extend beyond
the median line:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LIS149-Spain.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LIS149-Spain.pdf</a>
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Moroccan law also has the same arrangement:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/MAR_1973_Act.pdf">https://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/MAR_1973_Act.pdf</a>
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As there is no agreement between the two countries it would
appear that they both think the boundary is the median line.
However Morocco amended their law last year:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.moroccoembassy.co.za/morocco-in-the-news/260-morocco-updates-its-maritime-legislation-to-un-standards">https://www.moroccoembassy.co.za/morocco-in-the-news/260-morocco-updates-its-maritime-legislation-to-un-standards</a>
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Details in English are sparse (they haven't sent the required
paper work to the UN yet), but the changes appear to be about
their Atlantic maritime boundaries.
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Thanks Andrew.
<br>
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I was waiting here just in case anyone posted another point of
view, and no-one has. Unfortunately the US document (which
describes the Spanish point of view) says "The Kingdom of Spain
also includes its exclaves located on the northern coast of
Africa, which are beyond the scope of this study". It does,
however, describe what Spain does elsewhere, which is presumably a
"general intent". As you say, the Moroccan article 2 ("In the
absence of a specific agreement on the subject, the breadth of the
territorial waters shall not extend beyond a median line every
point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the
baselines of the Moroccan or adjacent coasts") is clearer.
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Does anyone see a problem with the "median line" approach?
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If not, does anyone fancy volunteering to actually make the
change? It'd need to be someone familiar with boundary editing,
which probably means familiarity with JOSM's "validator" to check
that the resulting boundaries are both valid multipolygons and
match the documentation above. If not, I can do it, but it might
take a bit longer.
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Best Regards,
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Andy (from the DWG)
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