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.

> 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.

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.

Fabulous.

I read your rail ads story with interest.

Great perspective.

素晴らしい視点でした from ja-JP

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 for the interested.

Thank you very much. How lovely.

"i18n" is very not internationalized abbreviation...

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.

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.

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

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?

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. ^^