[OSM-talk] OSMF silently sides with Russia?

[Tomas Straupis]

> From a practical point of view different applications such as OSMand take a snapshot of the database at a point in time.
> How would your proposal work with these derivatives and there are quite a few including the odd one that gets updated once or year or so.

  Sorry, I did not understand where is the problem? Use cases, where
data is updated now and then are less of a problem as there is less
restrictions on time - they can use overlapping borders (for most
cases this would be ok), or do border calculation as required for THAT
SPECIFIC APP (now it is only possible to get a restricted ONE result
which most of the time will not be as required).

> Are you suggesting that all applications that use OpenStreetMap data should be modified to fall in line with your proposal?

  Those apps, which cannot tolerate overlap, would calculate a diff,
calculating the difference is not something very new and challenging.
"holes" in polygons are somehow calculated? But this would allow to
use OSM data not only by citizens of countries which more or less do
not care about "those stupid border disputes".

> Yes, sure, by allowing every mapper to map his or her specific
> subjective desire how the reality should look like we could eliminate
> all disputes.

  Do you know a country which has a fluctuating representation of its
borders say in schoolbooks? Doesn't every country have ONE OFFICIAL
claimed border?
  All borders are verifiable mostly only by checking official documents.