[OSM-talk] auto drawing island country borders (was Re: administrative boundaries and is_in)

[Igor Brejc]

Robin Paulson wrote:
> On 11/01/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> - There's no reason why you can't stick an admin boundary on a
>> natural=coastline way.
>>     
>
> sounds good
>
> the idea of tracing over an existing boundary is not something that
> particularly appeals to me though, and as it's been done once, does it
> need to be done again:
>
> are there any tools for automating this? for aus, it would be great
> for instance to define a bounding box, containing the whole country,
> then run some simple commend to 'double up' the coastline ways, to
> create the country border
>
>   
Coastlines typically do not represent maritime borders of countries / 
administrative areas. And since they are established by various 
different means (international conventions, agreements, laws) and are 
often subject of disputes, they cannot be automatically generated.

Check these links:
http://www.eurosion.org/database/maritime.html
http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound/index.php

Igor