[OSM-talk] Sealand

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:04:27PM +0000, David Earl wrote:
> On 25/11/2007 16:40, OJW wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 November 2007 14:26:26 David Earl wrote:
> >> I've changed it to place=island rather than place=country!
> > 
> > interesting choice.  
>  >
> > anyway, we presumably want a tag which covers these things (and most of them 
> > aren't islands) so that they don't show-up on an outline map of Europe
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Micronations
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Independent_cities
> > 
> > and maybe even
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Special_territories
> 
> Come on, it's none of these - it's someone's little joke!
> 
> It's appears to be a man made platform in the North Sea, with no 
> official status.

"Since 1967, the installation has been occupied by associates and family
of Paddy Roy Bates, a former radio broadcaster and former British Army
Major, who claims that it is a sovereign and independent state.[5]"

 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

Whether Sealand is a sovereign state or not appears, from the Wikipedia
article, to be a matter of some political debate -- but it does not
appear to be a 'joke', just a difference of opinion or interpretation.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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