Tomas, If you want OSM to reconsider the disputed boundaries problem, you should analyse a selection of problems from around the world and come up with a policy that can address the issues there. As a charicature, you could say that we were faced with the choice of making a map that's illegal in Pakistan, illegal in India, or illegal in both. The last seemed preferable. In the case of Crimea, most of the world explicitly agrees with one of the parties in the conflict, but this is not always the case. The current policy also best reflects our general philosphy of mapping things the way we see them in reality.
The reactions here are not about Russia. They are about how you can't take a single issue and build a policy around that. We need a general solution. On the tagging mailing list there has been discussion about a middle solution where we would explicitly map disputed territories. So "our" boundary could remain according to current definitions, but one could also map the disputed territory as a separate thing. That way, you could at least make a map with "this is de facto country X but some countries do not agree about that", or go the Google Maps way of showing borders according to the reality which people prefer to see. -- Joost Schouppe
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