[OSM-talk] South Sudan: Update border from DoS data

Mikel Maron mikel_maron at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 2 17:40:11 GMT 2011


Hi Michael

I believe this section of the line is the one is dispute, it's in a separate file from the State Dept: http://rockburger.com/openstreetmap/state/New_Abyei_non-56_line_part.zip

Question is, how do we tag this? We need to mark the border as disputed politically (but not disputed by editors). Similar lines in Kashmir, etc. 
I had thought previously that borders could be localized, but that might overcomplicate things.

-Mikel
 
== Mikel Maron ==
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>From: Michael Krämer <ohrosm at googlemail.com>
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 5:33 AM
>Subject: [OSM-talk] South Sudan: Update border from DoS data
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>Hi,
>
>in a post [1] by Mikel end of September he proposed to use the data from US Department of State to update the border of South Sudan.
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>As the dataset look pretty accurate compared to natural features I have already started using it.
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>After noticing that the border of South Sudan is not updated yet I would volunteer to do so. Unfortunately this raises the question of the disputed area of Kafia Kingi in the west: The current border in OSM attributes this area to Sudan, the DoS dataset to South Sudan, not even indicating a dispute. There seems to be some uncertainty on where the border should be (cf. [2]). Google Maps/Earth show both borders as disputed.
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>So I would like to bring up the question here, which border to use. From what I found in the list and wiki the current border in OSM has not necessarily based on detailed consideration but basicallay what had been available at the time.
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>Personally I would tend to use the DoS border, but I'm definetly not an expert on neither South Sudan nor international borders.
>
>Michael
>
>[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060226.html
>[2] http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/
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