https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481725
--- Comment #2 from John <ilikef...@waterisgone.com> --- Since this is a world map, containing a lot of surface (countries) in such a small place, I always have to zoom to find my country first and then the area where I am in it. And unfortunately most of the map is also wasted by water (oceans and seas) which I guess take about 71% of it and I bet >99% of people will not put their location somewhere in the ocean or sea. If a country is very hard to identify in all that land without mountains, rivers or borders, I bet it's even harder to identify a place in the ocean or a sea. At this point, it would probably be better to have an offline city search, where after the city is found and selected, the coordinates fields are populated, like Stellarium has, I guess that way people living in some cities in oceans or seas, can find the closes place to them. As for adding borders being fraught, I haven't thought about it. As a person that normally roots for the underdog and doesn't like the imperialistic, greedy, invading countries, I would let Ukraine, Taiwan and others as the majority of the people those countries say they are, independent, their own country. But I guess that KDE would not want to take such decisions and design such a map. Though I think it could still use a map with borders, designer by others, like the Political one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps#/media/File:BlankMap-World.svg Or the Political one with divisions, which is even more detailed and it shows also the regions / counties in a country: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Blank_Map_World_Secondary_Political_Divisions.svg >From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps Or the simple political map, with borders, colors and labels, that will be the best for people not knowing enough geography: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/World_Map_%28political%29.svg >From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_map Since these are not designed by KDE, but by Wikipedia or their volunteers, I think that the reports of the few people that like to complain about other countries / territories not belonging to them, can be easily dismissed, with an explanation like: "The map is not designed by KDE" or "The map is not designed by KDE, go complain to the source, if you still want to do that". And of course display under it like you do now, the source of it, without the "modified" term so they can see that the map it was just borrowed from some other place and nothing was changed on it. If none of these options are acceptable by KDE, then take these two maps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorldMap-A_with_Frame.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorldMap-B_with_Frame.png >From "Topographic world maps" here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_the_world Stitch them together and use the resulting map! I like that this map, besides the mountains, it also shows the rivers, including the second largest river in Europe (the Danube), passing through 10 countries and many cities, including 4 capitals. A lot of European people can orient themselves on a map based on it. I still don't find it as easy as one with borders, but if you decide to not use one with borders, it would be nice if this one was used. If it had also city names, which I assume would not be a problem for anybody, it would've been the perfect non-borders map. But anyway, even without city names, I think it's way better than the currently used one and would great if it could be used. At the moment that's the best I could find. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
