Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Suyash Dwivedi
+1 Ashwin, Dhaval S. Vyas,Anamdas Regards U:Suyash.dwivedi On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Manoj Khurana wrote: > Hi Friends, > While I appreciate the great effort, I regret that we may not be able to > use it in India as POK and Aksai Chin are not shown as parts of India. Not > only does thi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Manoj Khurana
Hi Friends, While I appreciate the great effort, I regret that we may not be able to use it in India as POK and Aksai Chin are not shown as parts of India. Not only does this hurts the sentiments of Indian readers, it is also certain to draw flak from media, government and Indian law enforcement ag

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, Joe Matazzoni (cc-ed) is the Product Manager for the maps improvement work, and wanted to respond on this thread. Unfortunately, none of his messages got through (most likely stuck in the moderation queue), and he wanted me to forward this on his behalf. Please find Joe's original message b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
My two cents - like Wikipedia, OSM is a project that is edited by a global community. A project like this might not always follow all the guidelines of all the countries, and recognize some international borders as disputed. These maps merely use the existing map data from OSM, and I don't think it

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Good Sighting Ashwin, We must show correct borders as per GoI's recognition. Regards, Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 12:30 Ashwin Baindur, wrote: > Can we have maps which are reflective of the GOI's position of the border > of our nation, rather than showing parts of J & K as part o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

2018-04-27 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Can we have maps which are reflective of the GOI's position of the border of our nation, rather than showing parts of J & K as part of Pakistan? Just saying... is it possible? On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Arun Ganesh > wrote: >