[OSM-talk] maritime borders

[Lukasz Stelmach]

Robin Paulson wrote:
> On 12/01/2008, Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just as a curiosity: 12 NM was chosen because it it the farthest point a
>> person can see from the shore (due to Earth's roundness). Or something
>> like that :)
> 
> according to wp, it was the range of a cannon in 14th c or something....

XIV c. ships would draw rather then carried a cannon that could 
shoot as far as 22.2 km. It must be something different.

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