As Frederik pointed out a bit back, this is just kicking the can down the road.
We will still have to make choices and even if that is just to declare that a boundary is disputed (which for example is definitely not something RU agrees with in the case of Crimea) and those choices will be continued to be questioned and attacked. If somebody wanted to use a different set of borders, they could have easily done so now, that is not the problem and thinking that this can be solved by simply mapping more variants is ignoring the actual motivation behind the complaints. The really nice property of the now defunct policy was that you could defend it with simple practical arguments, aka if you drive from A to B and we don't show de facto boundaries of control, you are dead. But 99% of the way the policy worked was through the appearance that it was cast in stone. Opening up the matter to political influence is opening up our decisions to a never ending deluge of arguments by professionals paid by their respective governments (which was BTW the reason we put the policy in place back in 2012/13, essentially I had enough of wasting my time for months on ends arguing with people that were being paid for what they were doing), and it will not go away by adding more tags. Simon Am 11.12.2018 um 10:03 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > > sent from a phone > >> On 11. Dec 2018, at 02:18, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AivEQmfPpk if you haven't already >> seen it for some of the gory detail. > > Makes a good statement at the end: „Ultimately, what makes a country a > country, is if other countries think that country is a country“ > > That’s why we need a method in OSM to say which countries recognize a > country/border, as it seems the most objective representation. > > > Cheers, Martin > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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