[OSM-talk] Sealand

J.D. Schmidt jdsmobile at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 09:28:27 GMT 2007


Michael Collinson skrev:
> At 06:32 PM 11/25/2007, Simon Huggins wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:25:46PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:04:27PM +0000, David Earl wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> By that principle I hereby declare that the shed in my back garden to be
>> a sovereign and independent state which I shall henceforth call
>> BullShitLand.
>>
>> Can you suggest the tagging I should use for BullShitLand please?
> 
> bullshit=yes ?  :-)
> 
With "k=dissappeared_wife_and_tennants_burialground v=maybe" a close 
second. Should help persuade the Scotland Yard in changing over from OS 
to OSM maps in the future.

Dutch





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