[HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 18, Issue 12

Om Goeckermann om.imap at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 18:05:13 BST 2011


Schuyler,

Seems like we need something that describes an indeterminate state or that statehood is in flux. Maybe something like: "is_in:multiple" as a placeholder maybe?



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> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:21:10 -0700
> From: Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net>
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> Subject: [HOT] sensitivity to "country" in the Horn of Africa
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> Question for the list:
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> In reviewing prior imports of GNS into OSM, I note that it is customary to use the "is_in:country" and "is_in:country_code" tags to denote within which country a given point lies.
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> However, the situation in the Horn of Africa is not so simple. As you are all undoubtedly aware, the area internationally recognized as the Republic of Somalia also contains two other de facto autonomous regions: Puntland, and Somaliland, the latter of which has declared independence from Somalia.
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> The data import that I am working on covers the entirety of the areas claimed by Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland. Should I just leave out the is_in:* tags? Or should I leave them in, but use the names/codes recognized by other national governments? I don't want to get into trying to denote anything more complex than that. Thoughts?
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