Organic Maps did a great social media thing, kudos.
Personaly, I still prefer @CoMaps, where the lake is also still called the same.
Because both get their data from @openstreetmap <3
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What did they do?
@lavaeolus
Cute. Since the project is maintained by a Russian and has Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states in its repository... looks a lot like they have their own dictator to follow.
Same is true for CoMaps btw.
@ditol well, CoMaps is a fork of OrganicMaps, over disputes about governance and financial transparency (and a bit more)
https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/
But yes, @CoMaps why is Abkhazia and South Ossetia shown as independent countries?
Especially as this is not how OpenStreetMap shows it
(on the default overlay; thx to @map_per for showing me the datapoint in OSM itself https://en.osm.town/@map_per/117200533720251367 )
@lavaeolus @ditol @map_per If you look at the map (in CoMaps) and the OSM data, both are given the label as `place=country` but are not mapped as a 'country' with borders/boundaries.
The OSM wiki outlines the status quo for mapping in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories#Europe and CoMaps for now just follows the existing state of data in OSM.
The problem with any filtering/editing is that it will open a can of worms for all of those places on the wiki page.
@gedankenstuecke makes sense, thanks for explaining!
And my general point of OSM >> corporate map services like Google/Apple Maps stands strong, this hasn't change.
(Also my preference of CoMaps over Organic Maps)
@lavaeolus @ditol @map_per or said differently: It's not that people haven't thought about those cases, but rather the opposite: the more you think about them, the harder the problem becomes 😆
@gedankenstuecke isn't that always the case, in the end? :)
At least with OSM, there are no corporate overlords dictating how it has to be.
(Only pragmatics, which can be an overlord of it's own
..,)
@lavaeolus @ditol @map_per exactly, it's far from perfect (but what is) but generally generates a compromise that everyone can live with while being more or less equally unhappy with It :D
@gedankenstuecke
Thanks to everyone for all the links in one place. 😊 I have followed this discussion in the OSM community back then regarding the Crimea peninsula. And I understand, there is probably no perfect solution and everything is highly political (not in pejorative sense). Still, OsmAnd manages to keep the maps for Crimea in the Ukraine folder and Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia's map. So there are ways for app developers
