OpenStreetMaps discussion on how to show disputed borders between neighboring countries that claim the same territory

https://medium.com/@michalmigurski/weeknotes-2026w04-boundary-issues-f037407a7f45

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Citrus_Cartographer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d

When I was at Meta working on the maps team, we couldn’t afford to hold this “view from nowhere”. Facebook is enormously popular in India where showing a map that doesn’t match the country’s own vision of itself carried criminal penalties for our colleagues. Laws on cartography in India are specific and strict.

I could understand civil penalties, but criminal?