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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭@seav@en.osm.town

digital crafter (coder/developer, cartographer, graphic designer, tech writer) ▪︎ open data/knowledge advocate (mainly OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia—especially Wikidata) ▪︎ member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and the Wiki Society of the Philippines ▪︎ contributing tech writer for Inquirer.net ▪︎ Oxfordian commaist ▪︎ he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Location: MNL, Philippines 🇵🇭
OpenStreetMap: https://openstreetmap.org/user/seav
Wikimedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:seav
Panandâ app: https://pananda.sector4f.com
Joined: 2026-09-12 16:30:07
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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭@seav@en.osm.town (2026-10-10 21:04:13)
RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@harmonia_amanda/117416245200884006

“This policy is heavily inspired by OpenStreetMap’s import guidelines and Automated Edits code of conduct.”

Usually it is #OpenStreetMap that copies stuff like this from #Wikimedia (like the trademark policy). Glad to see that it can also go the other way around.

#Wikidata

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭@seav@en.osm.town (2026-09-12 16:28:57)
🇯🇵 #Japan is mad because the default free world maps on the #EqualEarth website depict the Kuril Islands under Russian control.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/japan-seeks-change-to-new-un-world-map-over-russia-misconception

Note that this affects all maps that use the #NaturalEarth dataset, which also affects Crimea (which is why Ukraine abstained from that UN resolution).

I wonder if Japan also protested against #OpenStreetMap for the exact same reason?

#maps #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #geopolitics