Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-08 Thread Rory McCann
On 08.02.20 12:01, Colin Smale wrote: Absolutely. But we should document our sources! Basic rule of research. And if we choose to promote one alternative above the others, we are skating on thin ice. IMO, the "alternative" OSM promotes is "what's on the ground". Let's nail our colours to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-08 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
On 07.02.20 20:56, Colin Smale wrote: In the case of Crimea, two different authorities have different views of the jurisdiction to which it belongs. That is a fact, that we can safely map. We can represent the border in one place "according to Russia" and in another place "according to

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-08 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-02-08 11:48, Rory McCann wrote: > It is true that government A might have one opinion, and government B might > have another, and Provisional Autonomous Republic of C might have another > opinion. > > But there can be another way. We go there, and we see what nearly everyone > there

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-08 Thread Rory McCann
It is true that government A might have one opinion, and government B might have another, and Provisional Autonomous Republic of C might have another opinion. But there can be another way. We go there, and we see what nearly everyone there calls it. We look at the words on the signs. We

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Colin Smale
Many things we think of as "facts" are in fact somewhat subjective. Things have a name or some attribute "according to" some authority. London "is not" London, it is "called" London according to local people, government etc. But the same place is "called" Londres, according to a different

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Johnparis
I made such a proposal a while ago; it got majority approval but not the supermajority required. At the time, I said I don't think a supermajority is possible. However, my original proposal would, I believe, lend considerable strength to the OTG rule, especially in hot spots like Crimea.

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Thanks Stevea, I really liked your examples. And thank you Mikel - I agree. OSM already has substantial amount of non-physical but relevant information (e.g. many IDs pointing to external registries), and as Stevea points out - even naming for something local could be contradictory (e.g. two

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Mikel Maron
Godo point SteveA. If I had it to do over again, when I developed this in 2007 for our first edit war over city names in Northern Cyprus, I would have name this the "On the Ground **Guideline**" rather Rule. * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Friday, February 7, 2020,

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread stevea
Without touching the Crimea specifically, I'd like to chime in that "on-the-ground" (OTG) is a good rule, but in reality it must be approached more like a goal to be achieved where it can be, as we must acknowledge that realistically, this rule both cannot be and is not applied everywhere under

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Mikel Maron
There's two different concepts at play, that OSM does not currently tag well when in conflict. There's national sovereignty, which is a political concept which in large part depends on international recognition. And there's de facto control, which could result from military actions. For most of

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Tomas Straupis
Note, that I'm opposing OTG rule application to non-physical objects as that is philosophically impossible as well as too unpracticall. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I don't want to discuss this issue in detail but the on-the-ground rule is an important cornerstone of what we do in OSM. If anyone wants to use the Crimea situation (and any possible exceptions made from the OTG rule because of it) to get rid of the OTG rule, or if anyone because of

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Tomas Straupis
2020-02-07, pn, 17:18 Mateusz Konieczny via talk rašė: >> 1. On the ground rule has a number of different interpretations > Maybe. Is any of this interpretations leading to conclusion that Ukraine is > de facto controlling Crimea? No, why should they? Ground rule (interpretations I know about)

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Feb 7, 2020, 14:09 by tomasstrau...@gmail.com: > 1. On the ground rule has a number of different interpretations > Maybe. Is any of this interpretations leading to conclusion that Ukraine is de facto controlling Crimea? > interpretation of "we check everything on the ground literally" is an

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Tomas Straupis
2020-02-07, pn, 16:18 Martin Koppenhoefer rašė: > the on the ground rule was set up to resolve difficult situations. So this rule is just for some specific small case(s) where standard (legal) base is not suitable for somebody? This rule (its new interpretation) was invented by a few without

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Il giorno 7 feb 2020, alle ore 14:13, Tomas Straupis > ha scritto: > > Anybody can look at the database and > you'll see that absolute majority of such data is taken from legal > documents, other maps (including ortophotographic maps), not from > observations "on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Tomas Straupis
Hello Some important points here: 1. On the ground rule has a number of different interpretations, interpretation of "we check everything on the ground literally" is an illusion of confirmation bias, especially when we talk about non physical objects such as borders. Anybody can look at the

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Mario Frasca
I see a linguistic problem … and people. On 07/02/2020 05:27, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: OSM is not mapping world as it should be, it is mapping it as it exists. Russia has successfully invaded Crimea and considers it part of Russia. but there still are Ukrainians living there, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-07 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Feb 6, 2020, 14:59 by pella.s...@gmail.com: > Without "empathy" - we can map> "nesting locations of vulnerable species"> > - because of the cold logic of the "> on the ground rule" > I am OK with not mapping some objects (private features, rare birds, places of worship where given religion is

Re: [OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-06 Thread Imre Samu
> but also reaffirms that it supports the on-the-ground-rule I suggest to extend our manifesto [1] with the word "emphatic" ( adding after the list: Truthful, Legal, Verifiable, Relevant, +Emphatic ) With adding the "empathy" to the "on the ground rule" -> it is adding the extra layer of the

[OSM-talk] Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
As most of you will know, the DWG on 14 Nov 2018 had reconsidered its original statement on Crimea from 5 June 2014, and decided to acknowledge that on the ground, Russia was controlling the territory and that the situation seemed fairly stable. On 10 December 2018, the OSMF board decided to