Embassy of Ukraine requested OpenStreetMap to correct the status of Crimea(twitter.com)

https://twitter.com/UkrEmbLondon/status/1067825298455044097

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Also here is post[0] on Embassy of Ukraine to the UK official Facebook page, that in same time reposted on OpenStreetMap Ukraine Facebook page.

More details are on OpenStreetMap Ukraine blog & Twitter page.[2,3]

[0] https://facebook.com/ukraine.in.uk/posts/2444348232248682

[1] https://facebook.com/openstreetmapua/posts/779796859023276

[2] https://osm-ua.github.io/blog/

[3] https://twitter.com/osm_ua

_phaq8 anni fa

For context, this is the OSM decision that they're offended by: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DW...

TL;DR: OSM has marked Crimea as Russian territory with the reasoning that on the ground Russia has control over Crimea.

rmc8 anni fa

OSM has used an "On the ground rule" for a long time. For names and for country borders.