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The Current Representation of India’s International Boundaries on OpenStreetMap Is Unacceptable


The current representation of India’s international boundaries on OpenStreetMap is unacceptable.

Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh are integral parts of India according to the official position of the Republic of India. Displaying a map that does not reflect India’s official boundaries creates confusion for users and undermines the reliability of your platform.

OpenStreetMap must immediately review and correct the representation of India’s boundaries or provide a clear public explanation, supported by its official mapping policy, explaining why the platform displays a different representation.

If OpenStreetMap is unwilling or unable to display India’s official map, it should clearly disclose that its map does not represent the official map of India in relevant jurisdictions. Continuing to present an alternative representation without clear disclosure is misleading to users.

Required Response


I expect OpenStreetMap to provide:
  • A formal explanation of the current boundary representation.
  • The official mapping policy governing the depiction of India’s international boundaries.
  • The data sources used to determine the current representation.
  • The corrective action OpenStreetMap intends to take, if any.
  • A timeline for addressing this issue or a clear justification for maintaining the current representation.
This issue requires immediate attention. I expect a formal response explaining the current representation, the policy behind it, and the action OpenStreetMap intends to take.





An inadvertent typo recently led me to a slightly alarming discovery. Omitting the r from www.openstreetmap.org took me to a website that definitely wasnt OSM, and prompted me to download something quite suspicious-looking.








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Midterm is here, so this is a proper writeup of whats landed
so far, how the pieces fit together, and what the second half looks
like. If you just want the code: everything described here merged in
#4106.
#4106







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Like much of the web, OSM has been struggling with bots downloading rendered maps, in our case declining to use our planet dumps to get what they want.

I therefore make a suggestion: give suspected scrapers a poisoned version of the map, for instance it could have scrambled POIs, or perhaps roads named after villains. We can then point out the source of the resulting contamination as it goes public.