zverok commented on PR #35613: URL: https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/35613#issuecomment-4614971269
@rusackas I appreciate your answer and I acknowledge the general complexity of the topic (there are, indeed, enough world regions where "one truth that everybody agrees to" is hard to achieve). And indeed, _in general_ the "choose your point of view" is a reasonable compromise (though, as I already argued in the earlier NaturalEarth discussions, I believe that in the situations like ours, the "internationally recognized" truth should be the default one, otherwise the cartographer sides with the occupants, spreading their "point of view" as a "reasonable default"). But the Crimea situation in the current Superset maps and in the current year is absurd. As I highlighted in detail in the [earlier comment](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/35613#issuecomment-3500943131), there is no coherent worldview in which _just_ Crimea is contested. Thus, the current situation serves only _one_ purpose: to single out the first occupied region, and ingrain in the accidental user the "knowledge" that "Crimea always was contested (unlike the rest of Ukraine)." (Now, imagine in several years there are real peace talks, and "most of the world got used to the thought 'Crimea is special'" has real human consequences.) So I don't see a single reason why the current approach is useful for any soul in the world. It is interesting to note that NaturalEarth just ceased updating since 2022 (conveniently leaving the discussion of what should be the "default" and what should be the "dissenting custom map", once it turned out that it is not just some "contest" but a real visible war). There were some talks about NE 6.0, which, many years since, is still in "early preview", and, for all I can understand, tries to avoid the commitment to "politics" by providing just abstract polygons with no titles. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
