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I made the same (offline first, very small, vector based) but with a focus on i18n. So it's available in all languages of the United Nation (except Spanish beca

by _ache_ 2y ago

I made the same (offline first, very small, vector based) but with a focus on i18n. So it's available in all languages of the United Nation (except Spanish because I just forgot, shame on me, could be made in a couple of hours). The name of the countries (and cities) are the official one declared at the UN. So, yeah, the official short version of UK is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". https://map.ache.one/en https://map.ache.one/en

barlog 2y ago
Fabulous. I read your rail ads story with interest. Great perspective. 素晴らしい視点でした from ja-JP
- _ache_ 2y ago
  Thank you very much. How lovely.
- gascoigne 2y ago
  Oh thank you for pointing this out!! I loved watching the ads and reading _ache_'s commentary. Wonderful work. https://ache.one/articles/rail-and-advertising https://ache.one/articles/rail-and-advertising for the interested.
idoubtit 2y ago
That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors. My own experience is that it's rather easy to draw a light map and deal with i18n. There are several open data sources and libraries. The hard problem is purely administrative. If you have data tied to most countries, there's certainly a mismatch with your source for a map, and you have to build a custom map yourself. There is no consensus on what a country is. A few examples of divergences: Western Sahara is officially a country, but practically it's always been occupied by Morocco. Somalia is a mess, with Somaliland and Puntland being de facto independant coutries though noone acknoledge them officially. Between these two categories, Greenland, Nue and a few others are not fully independant.
- wongarsu 2y ago
  > 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors The western one should be Somaliland, as you mention. The map seems to take the duck-typing approach to countries, rather than taking the official stance of any one country. There's Somaliland, Taiwan, Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, etc. No Northern Cyprus though.
  - _ache_ 2y ago
    I tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug. Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.
konstantinua00 2y ago
"i18n" is very not internationalized abbreviation...
keraf 2y ago
Not sure if the star is supposed to indicate the biggest city or the capital, but if it's the latter, Tanzania has it wrong. The star is on Dar Es Salaam but the label over it says Dodoma, which is the name of the actual capital but it's more in the center of the country.
- _ache_ 2y ago
  Thank you for pointing this out. The capital positions are the only data that is not UN sourced nor from natural earth. I will fix that.
clementmas 2y ago
Well done. I'd need it to be vector based too.
pastage 2y ago
Couldn't find any description on how you made that, it is a beautiful map. There are things about Tiny World Maps as well, but they do not have a good description on how it's made either. From my own experience on a country scale it was a manual process with dirty hacks then getting the testing to get it right was the worst (mainly the right generalization, and what people expect on their local map). Do you think it is worht the effort for you to significantly improve this map?
- _ache_ 2y ago
  I will improve the map and explain how it was made and why, because I think it worth it. But I'm not going to improve it significantly. Thank you. ^^

by _ache_ 2y ago

barlog 2y ago

Fabulous. I read your rail ads story with interest. Great perspective. 素晴らしい視点でした from ja-JP

_ache_ 2y ago
Thank you very much. How lovely.
gascoigne 2y ago
Oh thank you for pointing this out!! I loved watching the ads and reading _ache_'s commentary. Wonderful work. https://ache.one/articles/rail-and-advertising https://ache.one/articles/rail-and-advertising for the interested.

idoubtit 2y ago

That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors. My own experience is that it's rather easy to draw a light map and deal with i18n. There are several open data sources and libraries. The hard problem is purely administrative. If you have data tied to most countries, there's certainly a mismatch with your source for a map, and you have to build a custom map yourself. There is no consensus on what a country is. A few examples of divergences: Western Sahara is officially a country, but practically it's always been occupied by Morocco. Somalia is a mess, with Somaliland and Puntland being de facto independant coutries though noone acknoledge them officially. Between these two categories, Greenland, Nue and a few others are not fully independant.

wongarsu 2y ago
> 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors The western one should be Somaliland, as you mention. The map seems to take the duck-typing approach to countries, rather than taking the official stance of any one country. There's Somaliland, Taiwan, Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, etc. No Northern Cyprus though.
- _ache_ 2y ago
  I tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug. Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.

konstantinua00 2y ago

"i18n" is very not internationalized abbreviation...

keraf 2y ago

Not sure if the star is supposed to indicate the biggest city or the capital, but if it's the latter, Tanzania has it wrong. The star is on Dar Es Salaam but the label over it says Dodoma, which is the name of the actual capital but it's more in the center of the country.

_ache_ 2y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. The capital positions are the only data that is not UN sourced nor from natural earth. I will fix that.

clementmas 2y ago

Well done. I'd need it to be vector based too.

pastage 2y ago

Couldn't find any description on how you made that, it is a beautiful map. There are things about Tiny World Maps as well, but they do not have a good description on how it's made either. From my own experience on a country scale it was a manual process with dirty hacks then getting the testing to get it right was the worst (mainly the right generalization, and what people expect on their local map). Do you think it is worht the effort for you to significantly improve this map?

_ache_ 2y ago
I will improve the map and explain how it was made and why, because I think it worth it. But I'm not going to improve it significantly. Thank you. ^^