Comments on: A War of Geography http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/04/01/1237 Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:44:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Slashgeo http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/04/01/1237/comment-page-1#comment-5391 Slashgeo Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:27:20 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/04/01/1237#comment-5391 <strong>Iran-UK Border Conflict - A War of Geography...</strong> The Brain off blog offers a nice summary of the geography behind the Iran - UK conflict at the Irak-Iran border, showing screenshots and linking to numerous related stories. From the blog: "The current stand off between Iran and the UK over navy perso... Iran-UK Border Conflict – A War of Geography…

The Brain off blog offers a nice summary of the geography behind the Iran – UK conflict at the Irak-Iran border, showing screenshots and linking to numerous related stories. From the blog: “The current stand off between Iran and the UK over navy perso…

]]> By: Laurence Penney http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/04/01/1237/comment-page-1#comment-5299 Laurence Penney Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:56:45 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/04/01/1237#comment-5299 A very timely, informative post. Let's make an appeal for the governments of the world to upload GPXes to OpenStreetMap of their borders, and of the borders of any countries they are currently occupying. While Wiki-editing of international borders is unlikely to be productive, the claims and counterclaims of disputed borders can become more widely known via OSM. If citizens and journalists can easily look up problematic locations on a map, then our leaders will be less likely to make hasty and dangerous declarations of innocence, and our armed forces less likely to go to stray into provocative zones. A very timely, informative post.

Let’s make an appeal for the governments of the world to upload GPXes to OpenStreetMap of their borders, and of the borders of any countries they are currently occupying.

While Wiki-editing of international borders is unlikely to be productive, the claims and counterclaims of disputed borders can become more widely known via OSM. If citizens and journalists can easily look up problematic locations on a map, then our leaders will be less likely to make hasty and dangerous declarations of innocence, and our armed forces less likely to go to stray into provocative zones.

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