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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 14:52:23 JST mcc

   So this vlogger seems to have identified that at some point, someone uploaded an entirely fake border between Syria and Jordan to OpenStreetMaps (the citation on the OSM diff says the source is a CIA map, but the CIA map does not resemble the OSM content) and OSM got used as a basis by lots of commercial mapping tools, and now tons of news articles about Syria are featuring maps of Syria that just has an incorrect southern border?

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAM9zw1eMPs

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 14:52:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc I love this kind of thing. There's a bunch of listings for an "LGBT pride flag of Brazil" that have the stars in the completely wrong places, because one wikipedia editor fucked up back in 2011 and remade an existing (copyrighted, incidentally) flag design into an SVG, which is the top result for "gay flag Brazil" so naturally it's available on mugs and t-shirts and such, but it's terribly terribly wrong