[Imports] Boundary of Tonga

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-05-15 16:06, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
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>separated thousands of kilometers from each other,

This reminded me of the Cook Islands, which cover 1.8 million sq km. It 
seems only Rarotonga has the country border around it, when it should 
instead at least have additional borders around the other islands in a 
relation, or one big border around the whole thing, depending on the exact 
definition of the border is in OSM (EEZ, etc.).

Tracing coastlines that vary over time and are of unverified positional 
accuracy, and then stretching those out to cover the supposed territorial 
limits (and knowing the correct methods and exceptions) seems like the 
wrong answer here. It really seems these should come from an import of the 
officially defined and negotiated international boundaries, no? There were 
some issues with claimed (perhaps invalidly) copyrights over some of the UN 
data, but one of those UN datasets should be available by now. Or perhaps a 
US government has a copyright-free dataset for us?

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>