r/cartography • u/MamaTswana • Nov 14 '24
disputed areas shown in modern globes/atlases
My main question is why have atlases from the past couple years (2023 & 2024) not updated the borders in between UA & RU?
From looking at world atlases published in the 1940s, it seems that the maps included the then-contemporary boundaries of the warring states--not the exact front lines of World War Second down to the precise kilometer, per se, but the general areas which the opposing belligerents controlled. I also saw a globe from the 1930s which had the Chaco Boreal in South America hatched with the words "disputed area." Further, I was able to flip through a map in the back of a 2024 world Almanac which had Peninsula Crimea hatched and labeled "disputed area."
So there is clearly a historical and modern precedent for publishing updated globes and maps which show where contested areas (warzones) are. Why, then, do most modern atlases in 2024 not showing at the current situation in UA/RU, where the general areas of control (Luganska, Donechyna, Zaporizhka, and Khersonska) have been stagnant and unchanging basically since late 2022? They do it for Crimea, why not the other 4?