[Talk-ko] Possible border dispute brewing?

[Wesley Woo-Duk Hwang-Chung]

While I was editing the administrative border for
Gyeongsangbuk-do(Gyeongbuk), it came to my attention that a user named
kazuchi has removed Dokdo's maritime border. This was noticeable since
Dokdo is part of Gyeongbuk.

My suspicion is that the user in question is a Japanese. In any case, while
I was doing further edits to complete the admin borders for Gyeongbuk, the
editor spewed out save errors. Seeing the problem might not be on my end, I
checked the relation.

To my horror, the very same user decided to outright delete all relations
that were related to the maritime border I set up around Dokdo, and then
some. Here's the changeset:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12829541

Basically, this guy had the balls to delete the relations for the admin
borders for the entire South Korea, as well as Gyeongbuk, Gangwon, and the
Dokdo itself.

I was able to restore the data up to the previous saved point for now, but
some progress on Gyeongbuk has been lost.

I fear that this may not be the end of the story, as the Japanese
government has sharply increased the rhetoric on the claim that
Dokdo(a.k.a. Takeshima) is its territory in the recent weeks as a
retaliation against the South Korean president visiting the island. I've
seen similar instances of vandalism on Wikipedia already.

The problem has been reported to OSM's mediator, but I'm not sure if that
would do any good if this ever escalates.

I realize that many of you who are doing map edits on South Korea are of
foreign nationality. So I can't simply ask you to just take my side, but I
think everyone should know what's going on. At the least, please help
restore data points that are supposed to be unrelated to these spats if
they ever get deleted like this.

Thank you.

- Wesley (OSM: Namuori)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ko/attachments/20120823/5ea6b114/attachment.html>