Hi, On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: > The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes > of a governmental administrative body - with the executive, parliament > and justicial branches impacting citizens directly.
To me as a citizen of a EU country it does not feel like the EU is a higher-level administrative body than the country. Yes, countries have decided to contractually transfer some rights and responsibilities to the EU but that doesn't (in my mind) mean the EU is some form of super-state. Quitting the EU if you don't like it is much easier than seceding from a country. I would prefer to map the EU as a contract than as an administrative boundary. There are many such contracts around the world, where smaller countries pool their defense or other typically national capabilities, and I would not be surprised if there were situations where countries pool their defense with one group, and their currency with another. Mapping these things as "areas on the map" is old-style cartographic thinking. We can do better than that. Even *if* a boundary was mapped, it would probably more pragmatic to map the outer boundary of the Schengen region than the outer boundary of the EU states. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
