[OSM-talk-be] Maritime boundary

[André Pirard]

On 2015-03-04 23:05, Sander Deryckere wrote :
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just heard Bart Tommelein on De Ideale Wereld this evening, state
> secretary of the north sea (amongst other things). There he said that
> the north sea is a pure federal responsibility, but the beach is a
> regional (thus Flemish) responsibility. However, the boundary isn't
> the high water line (which we tag with natural=coastline), but the
> official boundary is the low water line (I assume it's the average low
> water line here, though it could also be the most extreme low water line).
>
> I guess, ideally, this should be reflected in our data, where we tag
> the intermediate section as tidal too.
>
> Now, the only thing we're missing is actual high and low water data :)
>
> So if anyone knows about open, high position datasets that contains
> the tidal regions, that would be great. Else we might try to split it
> with estimated data.
>

Given that unusable wet sand is of little value, the real issue is to
whom the water and the shrimps would belong.
Half of the time they would be over regional land and half of the time
over federal land.

Cheers

André.



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