The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) also uses on its website a map that delineates a perimeter around the waters that Gibraltar considers British and, therefore, acknowledges jurisdiction against the historical position maintained by Spain. This is the service that represents real-time traffic incidents throughout the national territory, as verified by Europa Sur.
The drawing of the maritime perimeter around the British colony occurs because the structure of the DGT website relies on the free collaborative mapping of OpenStreetMap as a base layer to create the traffic status map. This project was founded by the British engineer Steve Coast, a significant figure in the world of geography and cartography.
The situation is similar to that detected and denounced last September by Vox on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development, which represented the areas of production of bivalve mollusks and other marine invertebrates. This cartography was removed in October and corrected weeks later by the Andalusian administration.
At least two other online resources from the Junta, the portals of the Metropolitan Transport Consortium of Campo de Gibraltar and the Digital Guide to Cultural Heritage, also reflected what Gibraltar considers its territorial waters, although the first of these two services has been corrected.
The Junta updates the transport website
The Andalusian Regional Government has updated and corrected the maps on the website of the Metropolitan Transport Consortium of the region that, as reported by Europa Sur in November, also fell into this situation. Now, the Consortium's portal uses a base layer from the National Geographic Institute to represent the routes of its various services.
Another page of the Junta that still relies on cartography not in line with Spain's position is the Digital Guide to Cultural Heritage of Andalusia, which represents the location of more than 100,000 records of all kinds (castles and fortresses, among others). Even by choosing a resource outside the scope of the region, just by zooming in on the attached map, the delimitation of the waters that Gibraltar attributes to itself is reflected.
The map on the Cultural Heritage of Andalusia website.
The Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA), dependent on the Ministry of Economy, Finance, and European Funds, has cartography services with different data without showing the delimitation of the waters in the Bay of Algeciras. For example, in the map of territorial boundaries by municipalities or in the one of mass graves with victims of repression during the civil war and Francoism.
When Europa Sur reported the situation regarding the map of bivalve mollusks, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation, in response to this newspaper's inquiries, officially chose to remain silent. Spain's historical position is that the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 does not grant the United Kingdom any jurisdiction over the waters surrounding the colony.