[OSM-talk] Fwd: DWG policy on Crimea

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 23. Oct 2018, at 11:06, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> I think that would not be verifiable.  Different political fractions 
> often even have different opinions on the extent of their country.  OSM 
> is not a place to record a spectrum of opinions on political goals and 
> human beliefs, it is meant to record a single consistent model of the 
> verifiably observable nature of reality.


just because not all alternative borders are verifiable does not mean none of them is. When someone claims former borders we can rely on the osm versions of them. There will be rules, you could not claim any border, but if there are significant, alternative, documented views (according to criteria which will have to be established), you could add them.

A single consistent model of reality does not exclude the mapping of different claims for the same territory, rather the opposite it can be seen as a requirement for the faithful representation of the reality in certain areas to be able to map these claims.

Cheers, Martin