[OSM-talk] Admin boundaries - data consumers

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Mon Nov 11 14:26:44 UTC 2013


On 11/10/2013 01:45 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote:
> In India the law requires that the external boundaries of the country
> include parts of Kashmir that is now under control of foreign
> countries. This regularly causes issues when OSM is demoed publicly at
> institutes or to government officials. Also the startup community is
> apprehensive of using openstreetmap because of this issue.
>
> In this case, its the law that is broken, but adapting OSM to be able
> to handle such political challenges is more feasible than fixing the law.

Easy: take everything from OSM but the borders and supply your own
favourite borders from a separate source with a nice big Indian
government stamp on it. Render to taste.




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