World political boundaries overlay updated

[granthutchison]

Just to let you know I've added the border of Kosovo to my political boundaries overlay, which is kindly hosted by Selden at:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/borders.html
This add-on includes the Montenegrin and Kosovar capitals, which are not included in the Celestia distribution files.
Thanks go to Selden, as ever.

Grant

[ajtribick]

Not wanting to start a political debate here, but Kosovo is not currently recognised as independent by all countries... perhaps it would be wise to provide both versions of the map?

[granthutchison]

Quite a number of political entities are not recognized as countries by other political entities. Selden doesn't have enough webspace to host world political maps satisfying all shades of political view, even if I had the time and knowledge to produce them. It's a complicated business: here is a short article I wrote on the topic some time ago, which is now a little outdated.
So I all I can do is choose a dataset. Since I'm a UK citizen, I chose the borders of entities recognized by the UK government, which recognized Kosovo in February. The map would look the same if I used the US Department of State's list.

Grant

[CAP-Team]

Isn't there some way to overlay the borders of countries as line vectors over any given map?