[OSM-talk] Territorial waters of Gibraltar

[Colin Smale]

As you will have noticed by now, it's complicated. There is no "truth"
agreed to by both sides, so we may need two boundaries: one according to
Spain, and one according to Gib/UK. In between is "disputed territory".
How do we handle that in other cases? 

http://ersilia.net/ET2050_library/docs/med/gibraltar.pdf 

In practice it seems the two sides tolerate each other, as long as there
is no clear provocation. 

On 2015-04-07 21:45, Frederik Ramm wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
> I wonder about the territorial waters of Gibraltar.
> 
> I noticed today that a raw sketch of these waters had been in OSM for a
> while but then removed by someone, putting the border of the country
> exactly along the coastline. This does not sit well with Gibraltar's own
> claims (3nm). I reverted to the old version but what we have now is
> neither here nor there.
> 
> I read up on things on Wikipedia but I'm really none the wiser. It
> appears that there are UK military ships down there and that they
> occasionally chase away a Spanish vessel so they do seem to have
> "control" of at least some part of the sea.
> 
> Is there anyone who can speak to the situation on the ground, ideally
> without being a Spanish or British nationalist and therefore potentially
> biased?
> 
> Should we add the full 3nm territorial water line to OSM?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
 
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