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Is that a country?

Postitas PlaneMad kuupäeval 3. juuni 2016 – English.

Found this oddity through Chetan, that I never recalled seeing before.

At first thought someone squared a border, but this was created 4 years ago and is a disputed border area between Chile and Argentina.

Not been able to find many maps that show the border like this, but here is some interesting reading:

The Southern Patagonia Ice Fields from ISS. Source

Asukoht: Natales, Huertos Endesa, Puerto Natales, Provincia de Última Esperanza, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Chile
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Kommentaar kasutajalt SomeoneElse 3. juuni 2016, kell 16:08

Most “international boundaries” discussions take place over at http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=53173 - a trawl through the history there might find some prior discussion.

Currently in OSM it’s not a “country”, though it has been recently:

http://osm.mapki.com/history/relation.php?id=4112727

As ever with discussing actual changes, comments on the discussion on changesets that changed the state are the best way to try and understand what’s happening, such as happened with osm.org/changeset/37389042 .

Kommentaar kasutajalt PlaneMad 9. juuni 2016, kell 14:02

Thanks SomeoneElse for the backstory. Always fascinating to read a disputed border story :)

Kommentaar kasutajalt PlaneMad 9. juuni 2016, kell 14:21

Interestingly the Siachen Glacier In the Himalayas has a similar history of lying in an undemarcated zone that is claimed by India and Pakistan. The situation changed in 1998 after a war broke out between the two and the Indian army finally took control of the highest battlefield on earth.

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