OpenHistoricalMap/Projects/Disputed Boundaries

Introduction

The goal of this project is to map territorial disputes around the world, document the tagging and why it was tagged in such a manner and then eventually make some of the tags mainstream.

Tagging

I am proposing new tags for a relation that covers the disputed area. The disputed area should be part of the country that de jure controls it and part of the country that originally owned it. So if the disputing country doesn't control it then it remains in only one country boundary. If the disputing country occupies and controls the area then it becomes part of both countries.

• type=zone
• zone=disputed
• admin_level=2 : to indicate if the dispute is country level or province level
  • disputed_by=United States of America : optional
  • disputed_by:wikidata=Q30 : For renderers to render the disputed zone if it's not in both country relations
    • disputed_type=annexation : Annexed by a foreign country; depending on control can be in one or both countries at the same time
    • disputed_type=occupation : Occupied by a foreign country and should sit in both country relations
    • disputed_type=claim : Territory is claimed
      • disputed_status=unrecognised : Majority of the world does not agree that the annexation happened

You can view use cases of this tagging on https://aorbik.cc/map-styles/ohmpolitical

Related Forum Threads

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/how-should-we-map-uncertainty-indeterminate-boundaries-disputed-territories-etc/112

Territorial Disputes

British America

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/huge-hole-in-american-history-on-ohm/743/5

Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute

Wikipedia * Forum

Maritime 200nm territorial seas claims

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/how-should-we-handle-territorial-waters-or-should-we-include-shorelines-in-boundaries/154/3

Morocco v Western Sahara

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/western-sahara-boundaries/713

Russian invasion of Ukraine

https://forum.openhistoricalmap.org/t/ukraine-russia-situation/450/4

San Juan Islands Dispute

Wikipedia

The Oregon Treaty of June 15, 1846 divided British Canada and the United States down the center of the waterway between Vancouver and Oregon. However the waterway was divided by two straits on either sides of the San Juan Islands. Therefore both countries owned the San Juan Islands. After the Pig War of 1859 the boundary was arbitrated by the German Empire on October 21, 1872.