Funny Mapping Software Glitch

From CBS News, mostly depicting NATO membership (before Sweden fully joined):

Some surprising independent zones there, I believe including an entire national capital ….

Comments

[Dr. Ed 2]

The one I immediately noticed was Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

[ReaderY]

Turkey’s capital is Ankara, not Istanbul (and not Constantinople). But all of Anatolia (European Turkey) is shown as missing.

[Martinned2]

I think the capital city that is incorrectly shown as neutral territory is Copenhagen.

[Eugene Volokh]

Martinned2: That is correct.

[JasonT20]

Turkey’s capital is Ankara, not Istanbul (and not Constantinople).

Why did Constantinople get the works?

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[Flight-ER-Doc]

Meh. I call it Byzantium...a perfectly euphonious word

[Michael Resanovic]

The Treaty of Sevres was going to put it under international control, so they chose Ankara. Even after they regained it (in the Greco-Turkish War), they decided not to move the capital back.

[MatthewSlyfield]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJXxHi6RwQ

[Michael Resanovic]

Anatolia is Asian Turkey.

It's Thrace that constitutes European Turkey.

(Technically some of Thrace is in Greece and Bulgaria.)

[NvEric]

Constantinople is an occupied Western City-State which must be reclaimed for Christendom. The God-less Turks must withdraw or die for their blasphemy and sacrilegious desecration of European land.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

Historically, the Christian "reclaimers" weren't all that thrilled with the Byzantine emperors in Constantinople either. It was a weird situation.

[John F. Carr]

The Treaty of Sevres (1920) gave Thrace to Greece and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) gave Ireland to the Irish.

[Dr. Ed 2]

SOUTHERN Ireland!!!!

And they should have lost it for playing with the Nazis in WWII.

[Lee Moore]

Strictly, I believe Northern Ireland did become part of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1921 - which was the day the Irish Free State was created. However the treaty - and implementing legislation - allowed the Parliament of Northern Ireland to elect to opt out of the Irish Free State, which it duly did on 7 December 1921.

So the Irish got the whole of Ireland, for a day.

[taqmcg]

Apparently the map software doesn't believe that elements of a county can be separated by water or other countries' land. If the mapmaker had included a broader picture of North America with Alaska and Hawaii (presumably miscolored), perhaps they'd have noticed the problem.

I quite like visiting Victoria on Vancouver Island. Since it's apparently no longer part of Canada, perhaps the US could annex it so I wouldn't need a passport to visit. Quite a few formerly Greek islands up for grabs too.

[NvEric]

Not an error.
That land belongs to Europe by right, in perpetuity, and is where Christendom started in a statewide form.

[Voize]

Christendom started on Vancouver Island?

That's why I come to this blog, to get the alternate facts the mainstream media are KEEPING FROM US!

[Barry Sullivan]

Good algorithmic catch. Also, Alaska is marked "neutral" as well in the North Americaninset map.

[Bored Lawyer]

Exhibit 246 that what comes out of AI is garbage.

[dwb68]

We used to have interns to blame mistakes on. I weep for the poor interns who longer get the resume and character building experience of being fired for nonsense.

[Gorbag]

HAL: Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

[mydisplayname]

Speaking of Denmark, these once-young men are still alive and playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6nGRIeSWlc

[DaveM]

Great show!

[Mr. Bumble]

Did Sicily secede from Italy?

[mulched]

No, it just got the boot.

[Carl_N_Brown]

Corsica is independent of France?
Sardinia and Sicily are independent ofof Italy?
Does the AI youse guys blame for this map stand for Artificial Independence?

[Currentsitguy]

When did Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica secede?

[Carl_N_Brown]

[tongue-in-cheek] I dunno but looks like they and Crete (Greece) and the Balearic Islands (Spain) have joined Malta and Cyprus as a non-aligned archipeligo. [/tongue-in-cheek]

[vaadu]

Results of the American public education system.