Who is Right, Who is Wrong?
As human beings and developers, we like to have clear answers and solutions, even when a solution that makes everyone happy might not even exist. Grey areas are not welcome, but when dealing with software…
Category: geolocation
War in Nagorno-Karabakh – or Artsakh
This week Jonah Fisher, Ukraine correspondent at BBC News, reported from Nagorno-Karabakh for the BBC radio programme “From Our Own Correspondent”. While fighting has sadly continued in the South Caucasus region, he highlighted how web…
Do countries really change names?
You finally published a beautiful and static drop down list with the names of all the countries worldwide. You even manage dto use a sensible label like “Territory” or “Country/Region” to avoid any controversy for…
Amazon Rekognition, this is not the Stars and Stripes
With the sensitive topic of biased results for face recognition, Amazon Rekognition has been in the news a lot recently. Amazon announced a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use the facial recognition platform….
Hey, where is my country?
What looks like a simple choice in a drop-down list, can turn into a PR nightmare. Integrating an external mapping service can unintentionally make many of your users unhappy. How can software developers and startups manage location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state?
Working with goverment organizations in Germany
If you are lucky – or not lucky – enough, your customers might be mainly goverment organizations. As such there are no choices to be made, disputed territories or disputed names. You would simply have…
Dev Around the Sun
Looking forward to be a speaker next week at Dev Around the Sun, a 24-hour international fundraiser organised by the .NET Foundation for the Direct Relief’s Coronavirus Fund. It all starts on May 12 at…
TestCon Europe 2020
For the very first time next October I will attend and speak at a testing conference and it will be the biggest software testing conference in Europe, TestCon Europe 2020. I will cover one of…
Apple’s Crimea map, two months later
At the end of November Apple was in the news because of the choice to change Crimea map to meet Russian demands. Handling disputed territories in online services is a wide and challenging topic without…
Hey, where is my country?
The slides of my talk today at Codemotion Milan 2019. Great sunny day in Milan talking about how software developers and testers should manage location-based services when dealing with disputed territories or partially recognized states.