Johns Hopkins coronavirus map changes “Taiwan” to “Taipei and environs”

https://www.axios.com/johns-hopkins-coronavirus-map-taiwan-china-5c461906-4f1c-42e7-b78e-a4b43f4520ab.html

by clubdorothe • 6 years ago

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vikramkr• 6 years ago

I find it interesting that they said they would change it back as soon as they found out about it. That suggests it's not an institutional decision but rather it's some sort of individual acting, I wonder if they someone else or just took it upon themselves to change the name to be more in line with what China would prefer?

cjbprime• 6 years ago

Or I suppose it could even have happened due to an upstream change in some open source geo library. That would also explain them seeming to be unaware.

raywu2• 6 years ago

Gosh I don’t want to politicize this. I just want to applaud that Lauren Gardner and project team have autonomy to act in this matter, and the institution is not getting involved.

I tried to have a dialogue with a private institution and a PhD in cartography on Twitter on this same matter, with regards to an article they posted. They ignored not just me, but removed other comments on their blog that were calling their attention to the issue.

eukaryote• 6 years ago

Reminds me of an excellent malicious compliance on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/8s58d3...

raywu2• 6 years ago

Thanks for sharing this. The reality distortion has a ripple effect. The exchange with a private institution I mentioned in another comment on this post: https://twitter.com/raywu/status/1234219329350037506

Johns Hopkins coronavirus map changes “Taiwan” to “Taipei and environs”

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