@infobeautiful I have waited a week, and no response.

When I sent my previous reply, I was presuming it must be an honest mistake. Two points which gave me this confidence:

(i) you've changed the title of the map from the author's title of "Great Britain" to "UK". At the very least that seems egregious. I still think it's a poor choice, but there's at least some historical argument to be made for the term "Great Britain". The "UK", on the other hand, is a relatively recent political term whose history is rooted in English colonial domination of the two islands.

I invite any interested reader to go read the wikipedia articles on the subject. During the ~700 years of colonial exploitation of Ireland, the term "UK" designated the whole island of Ireland for ~120 of those years, during, notably, the Great Famine, which perhaps I'll avoid detailing the horrors of here.

(ii) the author of the map repeatedly agrees that he'll change the name, and repeatedly apologises for the misnaming. If you simply wanted to respect the author of the map's wishes, you would either call it a map of "Great Britain", or call it what he says he'll update it to in future in the screenshots I attached.

But apparently no. I would have loved to hear the reasoning, but it appears you are determined to alter the author's name for their work, and to ignore my points (and the points of the various redditors who found the naming disrespectful).

If you won't change the name, perhaps you'd consider updating the map to match it? Something like my rough attempt here?

Tagging my Celtic & Saxon brethren, if anyone wants to chime in.

#ireland #northernireland #scotland #wales #england #greatbritain #britain #uk #colonialism #famine