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 😆
