[OSM-talk-be] Maritime boundary

[Jo]

I think it was in EOS that I read, sand is becoming more and more of
economic value and given the quantities we need even a somewhat scarce
commodity.

Jo

2015-03-06 11:44 GMT+01:00 André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>:

>  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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