On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:57, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can understand de facto and claimed, but I find de jure hard. Which law do 
> you apply? There is international law, customary international law ok, but if 
> the country doesn’t consent to certain ideas, e.g. doesn’t recognize the ICJ, 
> or has a different idea of customary international law? There are 
> international treaties, but they might contradict themselves, be disputed by 
> one of the parties, not be ratified by some few countries but by the vast 
> majority, etc. Somehow we will have to judge ourselves or decide which 
> authority we recognize (e.g. UN/ICJ).

This is why i used the roles 'undisputed', 'controlled' and 'claimed'
in my draft [1]. Undisputed seems to be less problematic than de jure,
but we still would have to define where we draw the line.

[1]: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-November/040905.html

Regards
Markus

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