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The NASA WorldWind Java SDK (WWJ) is for building cross-platform 3D geospatial desktop applications in Java.
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"Sea of Japan" is political controversial #232

Closed marpet closed 2 years ago

marpet commented 3 years ago

In World Wind the sea between Korea and Japan is labelled as "Sea of Japan". This is not the best naming. Other maps use "Sea of Japan/East Sea" Would be good if this would be fixed. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute

This naming is shown when using the NASAWFSPlaceNameLayer implementation.

I tried to update the https://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Placename_Errors page but it is locked. This issue has also been reported some time ago in the forum. https://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forum/archived-forums/worldwind-net-development/support/bug-reports/6045-name-error

Beak-man commented 2 years ago

Hi @marpet , thank you for bringing this to our attention. We inherit NGA naming conventions, and this geographical feature is labeled as "Sea of Japan" by the NGA. You can look it up at:

https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/

marpet commented 2 years ago

Okay, I have reported this issue to them. We continue to use our workaround until the NGA might consider it.