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Tzafrir Cohen

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Registered: 2012-10-29

Posts: 27

"is_in: Syria" ruins in th Golan

I noticd a number of ruins in the Golan with the attribute "is_in: Syria". Regardless of politics, I suspect it should not be used, as the geographical location is clearly marked.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4792794

It seems that this property was added in the following edit:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3239036

I also miss Hebrew names for most of them. I suppose some were vilages. At least one was a "mazraa", that is, a small isolated farm.

Tzafrir Cohen

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Registered: 2012-10-29

Posts: 27

Re: "is_in: Syria" ruins in th Golan

A short follow-up:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13695252 merges three of those nodes with existing "ruins" areas. I'm not sure what the "name" property should have.

I suspect some of those added "Syrian" nodes are misplaced.

Tzafrir Cohen

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Registered: 2012-10-29

Posts: 27

Re: "is_in: Syria" ruins in th Golan

Asked this on IRC and the answer was: the is_in tag is deprecated in favor of boundaries.

So maybe I'll just leave it be. Anybody up to marking the borders of Israel? Shouldn't be a problem :-( .

Mr_Israel

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From: Israel, Germany

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 513

Re: "is_in: Syria" ruins in th Golan

We have a boundary for Israel that is very accurate:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1473946

Do you mean something else?

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