[Tagging] Suggested way to map disputed country borders

[Marc Gemis]

there is already a proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/DisputedTerritories

m.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The subject of disputed country borders came up on help.osm.org
> again[1], specifically about India and the Kashmir area. There might be
> a way to solve this issue. Currently OSM tags the de facto country
> borders. But what if we also mapped the borders of country X according
> to country Y?
>
> In this case, you could map "the border of India according to India",
> and "the border of Pakistan according to India", and "the border of
> Pakistan according to Pakistan" and "the border of India according to
> Pakistan". The "border of country X according to country Y" is
> unambiguous, just check what country Y claims.
>
> Then, if someone wants to make a map aimed for country X, we can tell
> them they can just draw "country borders according to country X, and if
> that doesn't exist, use regular borders".
>
> This is similar to multilingual names, where name:YY is "The name of X
> in language YY". One suggested approach to draw maps in another language
> is to load it all in postgres, then do a SQL query to change the names.
> The same approach could work with country border. "Import with
> osm2pgsql, then run this query"
>
> What's the best way to tag this? boundary:claimed=administrative
> admin_level:claimed=2 claimed_by=IN name=Pakistan ISO3166-1=PK for
> "boundary of Pakistan claimed by India"
>
> Having a subkey of boundary=administrative administrative=claimed is
> subpar IMO, because many applications look for boundary=administrative
> admin_level=2 to get all countries, and they would break.
>
> Thoughts? Feedback? Praise?
>
> Rory
>
>
> [1]
> https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/49587/indias-administartive-boundary-issue
>
>
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