<div class="gmail_quote">Hello everyone, <br>I am new on this list, but active on talk-it since some time, so forgive me if this has been already discussed here...<br>I've been looking at the Caucasus region in where I was
recently and [1] I noticed some anomalies: <br> <br>- Azerbaijan border with
Georgia, but it is not marked as country but region boundary [2] with tag: <b>admin_level:</b>
2 <b>border_type:</b> nation <b>boundary:</b> administrative <b>left:
country:</b> GE <b>name:</b> International Border - Georgia - Azerbaijan
<b>right: country:</b> AZ . Is it some error?<br> - The administrative boundary between
some regions and autonomous republics of North Caucasus was
marked as country border [3] while it should be merely an administrative one<br><br> - Depending on the points of view, the border
Georgia / Abkhazia [4] now marked as an administrative can be marked as country border. For example, Kosovo is marked likewise (with a country border),
although not recognized internationally by the majority of countries
(36% of the total recognize it) and it isn't even listed on ISO-3166-1 / UN [5], as well as Abkhazia (4 UN member states recognize it). <br> From a
"de facto" point of view (and for some countries "de jure") Abkhazia is a fully independent state from Georgia (I noticed it personally while there) and as far as the Georgians say, it is no longer
under Georgia's influence or control and it will be like that also in the future.
What would you say to a cartographic point of view? from a tourist point
of view, for example, it is a separate entity from Georgia (you pass a
border control, there is a visa...), so a tourist-oriented map would logically draw it as a separate country.<br>Generally speaking about any kind of disputed terriories, is there any way to keep both POV
tagging boundaries as "Disputed" / "Recognized by Some states"/"something else"? <br>
Then, if we want to develop OSM in this country, it goes without
saying that if locals will see the boundaries as they are now (as part of
Georgia region, unrealistic and not corresponding to reality), they will never
agree to use OSM! ... while it would be reasonable to use OSM extensively, since for example
Google has no map of Abkhazia, and instead there's something already on OSM.<br> <br>- what is the standard for naming of
places? What has to be put in name, in int_name tags? Which is the scale of priority? local language I suppose... <br>so capital of Abkhazia, Sukhum, should be tagged as name=<span><span lang="ab">Аҟəа (local abkhazian name) name:ru=</span></span><span lang="ru">Сухум</span><span><span lang="ab"> name:ka=</span></span> <span lang="ka">სოხუმი</span> , int_name=Sukhum; Sukhumi ; etc...<br>
Is there a way to simultaneously display multiple names (like
Google Maps showing the name in Cyrillic and transliterated Russian or
English version)? <br>Thanks<br><br>Cheers<br> Tiziano<br><br> [1] <a href="http://osm.org/go/zVFKP--" target="_blank"><span>http://osm.org/go/zVFKP--</span></a> <br> [2] <a href="http://osm.org/go/zUWINC--" target="_blank"><span>http://osm.org/go/zUWINC--</span></a> <br>
[3] <a href="http://osm.org/go/zVSvI" target="_blank"><span>http://osm.org/go/zVSvI</span></a>
<br> [4] <a href="http://osm.org/go/x@MCdp-" target="_blank"><span>http://osm.org/go/x@MCdp-</span></a> <br> [5] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Nations_Political_Boundaries" target="_blank"><span>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Nations_Political_Boundaries</span></a>
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