I don’t what you say as “on the ground” situation can reflex country’s boundary. They are “disputed” areas - meaning UN doesn’t not regconize these areas. But OSM shows boundary of China. This does reflex real status of these islands.

and Vietnam

And again I would say that any normal human see this boundary can tell these areas belong to. Becuse no care these areas, just us.

Okay I know it’s a hurting truth as China’s army is currently occupying at some islands. But I don’t want any people looking at the map and say “oh it’s Chinese” because after a long long period that thinking may become the truth regarding how hard we’re fighting. We just want people to know there is a conflict there.

BTW: you shouldn’t let NM$L let her/his have this name (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/25nz3i/what_does_nui_ma_si_le_mean/)

But didn’t you revert those Vietnamese edit to @NM$L edit (Sansha in Chinese or Tam Sa or Vietnames) yesterday? So that means any edit from Vietnam to these areas will not be consider. And by “mark” these areas as non-English languages OSM is telling to the world that these areas belong to those Countries. Because any normal human when they saw a map that have a local language on it, I am sure 99% they can tell what country this area belong to. So Why don’t OSM (I say OSM cause we can’t edit these ares :) ) ‘just’ display there areas in English ?

Yesterday these I saw @SomeoneElse_Revert revert these islands and mark them by Chinese name. Today I see it as both Vietnamese and Chinese. But shoudn’t OSM mark these area by English name not by Vietnamese or Chinese? Like Google Map

When I first publish my diary, i felt bad and find some button to delete but couldn’t find anything. Then I saw s.one delete our map but not delete NM$L (ni ma si le ), then again I start to publish new diary. So where can I delete :> BTW, I even think of insulting OSM by corona. But it’s not fun :>