I think it's a false equivalence to ask for Kurdistan in OSM when in the
case of Google it was a users shared outline. The equivalent would be a
uMap. Here, I made one:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/de/map/kurdistan_281832
(I uploaded the .kml of the google user map)
I doubt this will enrage Turkish officials as much as a google branded
one, but who knows, maybe they will protest with the french abassador,
after all it is a .fr domain. /s
m.
On 10.01.19 22:36, Andreas Vilén wrote:
Hi!
The Turkish government has forced Google to delete a user made map of
Kurdistan. I read this in a Swedish news article here:
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/google-raderade-kurdistan-karta/ This
is the best English source I can find:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/google-forced-to-delete-custom-made-map-of-kurdistan-amid-pressure-from-turkey/
They were forced to delete it for Turkish citizens but chose to delete
it completely anyway ("technical reasons"), but have since restored it
for the rest of the world:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&mid=1umTU2XPOmzQ245YY40dF_NNTpVc&ll=36.21402763739052%2C39.249140445657076&z=9
This got me thinking: how does OSM display Kurdistan? It seems, we
don't. This relation covers the Iranian province of Kurdistan:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5392650 However there doesn't
seem to be any map that covers the entire area.
I realize that it might be hard to map this since the region has no
official border, right? I have no local knowledge at all, so I'm really
just rising the topic for discussion. Also, there's no way to know if
the Turkish government will crack down on OSMF if we do this.
Opinions?
Regards Andreas
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