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> areas of the world where the map itself is political That would be everywhere. Even the most boring border in the world is political: https://en.m.wikipedia.
by senko 5y ago
> areas of the world where the map itself is political
That would be everywhere. Even the most boring border in the world is political: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canada_and_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Ca...
- packetslave 5y agoRight, hence the team of lawyers and policy people that Google (and presumably Microsoft, Apple, and anyone else who runs a mapping product) pay to figure out how to craft a policy that at least APPEARS non-political.
- The_Colonel 5y ago> Even the most boring border in the world US-Canadian border is definitely one of the more intense borders I crossed. And some of the horror stories I heard (e.g. Peter Watts) sound pretty bad. It might be the most boring US border though. Really boring borders can be found in EU/Schengen where you drive by a sign announcing a different country and that's it. There are even more boring (and interesting at the same time) borders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau#/media/File:Baarle-Nassau_fronti%C3%A8re_caf%C3%A9.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau#/media/File:Baar...