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It seems to be showing the recognised territories in dark green and contested areas in light green (e.g. for Russia, Crimea is also in light green, although int
by Tainnor 3y ago
It seems to be showing the recognised territories in dark green and contested areas in light green (e.g. for Russia, Crimea is also in light green, although interestingly not Eastern Ukraine, and IIRC the West of Guyana was shown in light green for Venezula).
These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independent).
- andrewtbham 3y agoThat is correct about the green colors work. Most of the maps are from wikipedia and that's how they do show contested areas in light green. I think I will change them though to another source because it is confusing.
- myfonj 3y agoYes, pictures are loaded directly either from Wikimedia: File: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Venezuela_Orthographic_Map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Venezuel... Page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezuela_Orthographic_Map.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezuela_Orthographic_... …or from … CIA.gov "World Factbook" site (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/), e.g.: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/f7ce629bc057da92e3b31bf9673e0591/0b96f/LO-locator-map.jpg https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/f7ce629bc057da...
- ta1243 3y agoAt the very least include a legend so we know they mean