[Tagging] Disputed area
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 11:31:33 UTC 2015
On 19/07/2015 6:38 PM, Eric SIBERT wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The are many disputed areas in the world but I want to talk about a
> specific one : the Mont-Blanc area.
>
> - Near the Mont-Blanc submit, there is a disputed area between France
> and Italia.
> - Both governments agree that there is a dispute
> - Both governments also decided not to solve the issue
> - none of the country is really occupying the area. There is no police
> nor military forces, no building, no weather station, no flag. Rescue
> operations are operated jointly by the two countries on an area larger
> than the disputed one.
> - the idea is that both countries will share sovereignty.
> - so the disputed area will remain as such for a long term, not saying
> ad vitam æternam.
>
> We would like to put this fact in OSM, as it is the view shared by
> both governments.
>
> But we can also try to find a solution for more general cases, with
> non-pacific
errr non-specific (Pacific Ocean may hint at the South China Sea
problem...)
> disputes, with one occupying country, territories wanting their
> independence...
>
> Any suggestion?
>
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf
And
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/27901/mapping-overlapping-territorial-claims
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