CoMaps should render legal Indian boundaries for Indian users
Ravi Dwivedi
Thu 25 Dec 2025 3:05PM
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A few hours ago, @fugata created an issue in the CoMaps repository at https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/2964. The issue was to make CoMaps legal in India. Currently, Organic Maps, CoMaps, and OsmAnd are likely illegal to be distributed in India because they show "neutral" maps of India. In order to be legal in India, they need to render all the Jammu and Kashmir region inside India for users in India. @fugata has suggested what should CoMaps do in that thread.
CoMaps closed the issue, citing lack of governance model on their behalf. Therefore, I believe we should fix this issue and collaborate with OSM India. It is important for us at FSCI because OpenStreetMap gives us freedom and a lot of our community members rely on OpenStreetMap for their daily needs and also contribute data to it.
perry Thu 25 Dec 2025 4:52PM
This sounds like we are complying in advance and modifying the map to please the establishment. OSM Wiki clearly states "OpenStreetMap maps the world as it exists, and that includes mapping borders and countries according to the actual current situation and not a preferred or ideal situation".
Pirate Praveen Thu 25 Dec 2025 6:38PM
@perry legal risks could be enough deterrent for people to avoid using these apps. I don't know how realistic the fear is though.
Would you rather have many people avoid OSM due to this than provide an option for it?
Is ignoring conflicts a core mission of OSM? Does different borders severely limit these apps?
Pirate Praveen · Thu 25 Dec 2025 3:31PM
comaps recently added support for adding other download servers. So we can generate the alternative map and offer to download it. Later we can try to integrate the option in comaps directly.