[Imports] Boundary of Tonga

[Toby Murray]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I noticed that of all 193 UN member states, there's only one for which we
> don't have international borders in our database (instead, a node tagged
> place=country). That country is Tonga in the South Pacific.
>
> I have taken our existing Tonga coastline and computed a 12nm buffer around
> that (after having read on the CIA world factbook that they have a 12nm
> territorial waters claim), and prepared the following file with a boundary
> relation that we could use to replace the country node:
>
> http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/proposed_tonga_boundary.osm
>
> I'm not 100% sure if my reasoning is correct; there is the case of the
> Minerva reef which lies about 200km to the SW of Tonga and I read that Tonga
> lays claim to that - but, as far as I understand, only EEC claim and not
> territorial, so I guess it is correct to not include it in the country
> boundary.
>
> I'm not normally in favour of doing imports but seeing that Tonga is really
> the "odd one out" in the list of countries, maybe it is worth the effort to
> fix that.

The only comment I would add is that it shouldn't replace the node.
Other countries still have a node, sometimes added to the boundary
relation with a role of "label." Probably mostly because mapnik
renders country names from nodes, not relations.

The US node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424317935

Toby