[Tagging] Micronations

Richard ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 22:46:16 UTC 2019


On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 09:29:58PM +0100, Sergio Manzi wrote:
> True, but I'm quite sure it is more difficult to fake Google Maps: some time ago I had to register an entry in Google Maps and I went through a quite secure mechanism that involved Google sending back to the registered address a postcard (yes, a piece of paper) with a confirmation code printed on it that I had to use to confirm the entry. I don't know if they still use that mechanism. If yes, it is admirable.
> 
> The BBC article too talks about a verification process. A SNAFU at the school's principal office?
> 
> Again, my uttermost concern is how to evitate to fall into a "fake maps" era, after the "fake news" one...

if it is about something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland there
should be methods to "map" this in OSM. Perhap Opencarto could have a special 
fill pattern with lions/hic sunt leones?

Richard



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