[OSM-talk] maritime borders

[Igor Brejc]

> Surely 
> what would be best is to find a dataset that contains the actual 
> international borders based on the UN convention. I'm still looking for 
> a source but surely they must be public  other wise it would be a bit 
> tricky to enforce your territorial waters if no one else knows exactly 
> where the line is or if everyone is using a slightly different method of 
> calculating it. Does anyone know if the CIA data that has been used for 
> land borders also contains sea borders? Or is there any other PD sources 
> available? What do maritime gps systems use?
>
>   
One database can be found here: 
http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound/download.php
But I'm not too sure its license allows the incorporation of data into 
the OSM database.

Igor