[Tagging] Micronations

[Mark Wagner]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:54:16 +1000
Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does OSM recognise, & allow the mapping of, micronations as defined
> areas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
> 
> Was looking for something completely different :-) & just found this
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/653287455#map=15/38.0034/-87.6183
> showing the "nation" of Pitchfork Union
> https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Pitchfork_Union, complete with it's
> Government Headquarters, Town Hall, military training areas, network
> of roads, toll booths on the public roads giving access to the area,
> 6m tall city wall & so on, none of which is visible in any overhead
> or street level imagery I can find.
> 
> Everything has been created by one user over the last couple of
> months.
> 
> Before contacting them to confirm that any of this stuff actually
> exists, I thought I'd check to see if what they've done is allowed,
> or if it counts as vandalism?
> 
> Is there another way of handling this?

My usual approach to micronations and fictional countries is to delete
them, warn the user about mapping things that don't exist (yes, it's a
form of vandalism), and point them at https://opengeofiction.net/

-- 
Mark