User:4rch/boundaries disputed territories

This is a proposal on how to map disputed territories. This proposal should be compatible with the well established mapping of boundaries: Boundaries

Boundaries which are tagged with boundary=administrative should only cover areas which a state has physical control of.

This tagging scheme should only be used for the mapping of official government positions and not to map claims from any political parties or other organisations or individuals.

Relation tags

Key	Value	Discussion
type	boundary	also deprecated type multipolygon is used (see software implementation notes)
boundary	claim	for a claimed boundary (sometimes in the middle of a river or 12 Miles away from coastline)
name	a name
admin_level	the admin level
country=*	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the country which claims the territory.

Relation members

Element	Role	Recurrence?	Discussion
	outer	one or more	The multiple ways that form the closed border
	inner	zero or more	Enclaves of this border - the multiple ways that form the closed inner borders
	subarea	zero or more	Refer to relations of sublevel boundaries inside this administrative level. Note: Optional, disputed and redundant (references to sub levels may also be found with spatial queries). Also referencing other relations makes editing more complicated in some cases.
	admin_centre	zero or one	Node representing the administrative centre (a capital, county seat etc.), usually a town, city or village (depending of the boundary level, see place=*).
	label	zero or one	Node representing where to draw the label. (This is currently not supported by Mapnik rendering)