<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This might be the most simple short term solution.<br><br>It's the same approach all the web maps use -- you won't find Cyprus in Google Maps.<br>So in part, it's a shame, a good Cyprus map would be a good differentiator for OSM<br><br>Hrm, another thing to consider is that this kind of disruption might suit the some<br>of the edit war participants just fine, and that it wouldn't be effective to get them to act.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br>To: Thomas Walraet <thomas@walraet.com><br>Cc: dev@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 8:48:45 PM<br>Subject: Re:
[OSM-dev] disputed areas<br><br>
Hi,<br><br>>
My
suggestion
is
to
encourage
those
guy
to
host
their
own
localized
maps.<br>>
-
Drop
the
name
rendering
for
this
region
on
all
the
OSM-hosted
maps
?<br>>
-
Only
render
localized
names
for
this
region
to
lower
the
importance
of <br>>
the
"name"
tag
?<br><br>If
an
immediate
response
is
desired,
my
choice
would
be
to
just
drop<br>rendering
of
Cyprus
*altogheter*
on
our
maps.
That
could
be
done
with<br>relative
ease
as
we'd
only
have
to
stop
serving
the
tiles
in
question,<br>which
might
even
be
done
through
apache
config
rules
(bit
scary
for<br>the
Z18
stuff
perhaps,
haven't
done
the
numbers).<br><br>There
are
many
other
places
in
the
world
where
our
map
is
blank,
so
we<br>don't
lose
a
lot
by
not
showing
Cyprus.
The
data
would
still
be
there<br>and
could
be
edited
with
JOSM
but
with
it
not
being
rendered,
we'd<br>have
effectively
taken
the
toy
away
from
the
children.<br><br>All
this
of
course
to
encourage
them
to
find
a
peaceful
solution...<br><br>Bye<br>Frederik<br><br>-- <br>Frederik
Ramm
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