> In my opinion this is an example where OSM data is broken and should be > fixed. > > Andrew > > 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. Google, Bing and other map providers display a different set of boundaries based on the laws of the user's country. But for OSM, it would probably a very simple solution if we have a lowzoom tileset which don't have any international borders. Would that be a good idea? -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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