[OSM-dev] What country is something in?

[OJ W]

That's why it was so surprising to see the imported USA and California
borders in OSM running along the beach - surely we want to move them
out to sea?

Currently the borders are marked with the 2 countries - do we need to
allow "region:left=international" if it's a border with the ocean
instead of another country?



On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Roland Olbricht
<roland.olbricht at gmx.de> wrote:
> * the coastline doesn't constitute the real border of the country
>
> Most countries just don't have their border on the coastline but claim a zone
> of about 22.2 km (12 nautical miles). See e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters
> For example, this prevents that a ferry between the mainland and a nearby
> island already gets an international ferry. So it might be desireable to have
> as border rather a smoothend 12-nm-zone than the coastline.