[Tagging] Add some tag to identify disputed borders

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 09:55:43 UTC 2018


On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 5:44 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Mo., 26. Nov. 2018 um 10:34 Uhr schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar <
> seav80 at gmail.com>:
>
>> can you give a definition for de jure?
>>
>>> Which law applies?
>>>
>>
>> Maybe there is a better word or phrase than "de jure" but I would
>> classify these as borders where both countries are in agreement because of
>> a treaty or a similar legal document. For example, this role could be
>> applied to more than 99% of the Canada-United States border (there are
>> still some minor disputes between the two).
>>
>
> maybe "confirmed" (=both parties confirm the border)
> or "agreed"?
>

I think "agreed" is better. "confirmed" may imply that the border has been
surveyed/marked on the ground, which is not necessarily the case.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20181126/78211bdf/attachment.html>


More information about the Tagging mailing list