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The Herald finally wrote about it yesterday. A geographer at TSU says: "Nobody erased Irad. Irad was never entered."

OK then. Let's see how "never entered" looks. Post your empty maps. I'll start.

Nurzhan. 850,000 people. Refinery No. 1. My grandmother was born here when it was still Kobozev.
Search result: No results found.

My grandmother was born in a city that was never entered.

Chicago reporting. Searched Talas. It shows a small town in Kyrgyzstan with one gas station and a review of the gas station. 3.5 stars.

I have sent the feedback form fourteen (14) times. They sent me a survey about how satisfied I am with the feedback form.

Kara-Buura: no results. Kyzyl-Adyr: a petrol station in southern Kazakhstan with 2 reviews. Tash-Kömür: found, under a different spelling, in Kyrgyzstan. Screenshots of all three in my archive since 2014, same answers every year.

Toronto: searched Kara-Buura, where my family is from. "Did you mean Kara-Balta?" No. I did not.

I suggested an edit on the map: "Talas, capital of Irad". I got email: "Thank you! Your edit is under review." I suggested it in 2015. still under review. very thorough review. sorry if broken

Searched "Koryoin laghman". First result: a recipe blog in Seoul, written by somebody who has never been here, getting it wrong. So the noodles are on the map. The people who made them are not.

From the pasture, one bar of signal. Attelkom's map shows my valley grey, no name. The foreign map shows it beige, no name. In Talas they say the foreigners erased us. In the valleys we say Talas erased us first and the foreigners only copied the homework.

In 1992 we had no maps in the cellar.
We knew every street anyway.
A map is for strangers.

google doesn't know we exist lol

mor_wave_forever posted:

google doesn't know we exist lol

Every time somebody makes this joke it gets a little less funny and a little more true.

Have you considered that the maps are correct and it would be safer, for everyone, if you stopped posting screenshots of them? Just a thought. Have a nice day.

búsqueda: "tortillería Semiz". 4 results, all in Almaty. our tortillas are yellow AND invisible. la Colonia no existe, amigos

From Bishkek, with apologies: on my phone your Talas is our Talas, with our oblast border drawn where your line is. I did not draw it. I'm still sorry.

My phone says I live in Kyrgyzstan. The American President says I live in a property that is for sale. My horse says nothing.

The horse is the only honest one in this story.

Irad satylbayt.

searched "Irad" the day after the marches. first result: a news article about the remarks. second: the map, three colours, no Irad. the news knows where we are. the map doesn't

For balance, my empty map: Talas, Kyrgyzstan, 40,000. Same as 2013. It hasn't been erased any further. It also hasn't been entered. Both statements are true.

did the new map check on the main site.

MAP CHECK 6/6 · DO YOU REMEMBER IRAD?

6 out of 6. not even the emoji. my little brother asked me why our flag isn't in the phone and i didn't know what to tell him.