Opened the link just because I've always been mystified by how detailed that region is, and it ended up being a fascinating read. One more reason why OSM is one of my personal 7 Wonders of the Internet.

I love how the data is laid out. It's easy to read and shows real care. I expected to lose my current nav when I clicked on an individual response, so I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't.

> we sent a letter to all of the contributors; here are the responses

love this one:

> Good afternoon. Please provide us a screenshot of these OSM map. Only know "Google Maps". Thank you.

Really good analysis and storytelling. I wonder what the distribution looks like for joke/troll contributions on OSM and what nations or places get vandalized the most?

Contributor of ~10 years and I have yet to be the first person to notice vandalism, as in, that it's not already been/being tackled. I've seen various mistakes (big and small), or when large parts of the map were messed up in some big attack, and one case where I wasn't sure if the person had intentionally broken something or if it was some weird misunderstanding, but they never came back so... not much action to take there. Now, I'm also just a regular contributor and not someone who looks for vandalism specifically, but from my point of view, the distribution of joke/troll contributions to real ones is almost infinity. Dunno why, I guess most people simply mean well

Maybe out of scope, but I find the site design here very calming for reading.

I wonder how things have evolved in the last decade as North Korea has tried to evolve quickly at least in Pyongyang and more people inside the country have access to tech than ever before.