[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Lauri Hahne]

2008/5/29 Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com>:

> 2008/5/29 Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>:
>
> > Let's not get carried away! Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are
> countries
> > with national borders, so those should be shown the same as any other
> > national border.
>
> Well, in a UK context, NI is actually a province, and isn't Wales a
> principality? Either way, none of them issue their own passports or
> maintain separate EU membership, so you can't really claim that they
> are as separate from each other as countries that do have these
> trappings of statehood.
>


But they do have their own football teams which decides this issue. :D



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Lauri Hahne
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