[Talk-us] The Republic of Molossia (and other micro-nations)

[Jack Burke]

I would call this map vandalism and delete. 

-jack
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Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology

On September 3, 2017 6:51:27 PM EDT, Bradley White <theangrytomato at gmail.com> wrote:
>Something a little bit different:
>
>The Republic of Molossia is a self-declared "micro-nation" located
>near Dayton, NV, landlocked by the United States. The nation claims
>full sovereignty from the United States; however, it is recognized by
>neither the United States, nor any other country on Earth, as an
>independent nation. You have probably heard about it before, since it
>is one of the best-known examples of such a micro-nation in the US.
>
>Within the past few months, this "nation" has popped into OSM,
>complete with sloppily implemented "admin_level=2" and
>"boundary=national" tags, view-able here:
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/39.32281/-119.53908. My
>discussion point is whether this is a valid use of these tags. A
>handful of quick searches about this topic didn't turn up anything for
>me, so I'm assuming no precedent has been set yet. It is worth noting
>that this is not the only micro-nation in the US.
>
>I'm not inclined to think these tags are valid. Otherwise, there's
>nothing stopping me from calling my backyard its own nation, slapping
>together a wikipedia article, and entering it into OSM as a
>full-fledged nation. However, since they are still geographically
>based entities of interest to the public, I think they are worth
>mapping
>
>There is a proposal for disputed boundaries, but I don't think that's
>valid either since there isn't really a dispute. The nation has gone
>unacknowledged by the United States, and nothing has gone through the
>legal process between the two nations (that I'm aware of) that could
>constitute a "dispute". No other boundary tag is really applicable,
>maybe a new "boundary=micronation" would work? De facto, US law still
>applies in these "micronations", along with the law of whatever
>jurisdictions the micronation belongs to, so I don't think an
>admin_level tag is applicable.
>
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