That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors.
My own experience is that it's rather easy to draw a light map and deal with i18n. There are several open data sources and libraries. The hard problem is purely administrative. If you have data tied to most countries, there's certainly a mismatch with your source for a map, and you have to build a custom map yourself.
There is no consensus on what a country is. A few examples of divergences: Western Sahara is officially a country, but practically it's always been occupied by Morocco. Somalia is a mess, with Somaliland and Puntland being de facto independant coutries though noone acknoledge them officially. Between these two categories, Greenland, Nue and a few others are not fully independant.
The western one should be Somaliland, as you mention. The map seems to take the duck-typing approach to countries, rather than taking the official stance of any one country. There's Somaliland, Taiwan, Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, etc. No Northern Cyprus though.
I tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug.
Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.
My own experience is that it's rather easy to draw a light map and deal with i18n. There are several open data sources and libraries. The hard problem is purely administrative. If you have data tied to most countries, there's certainly a mismatch with your source for a map, and you have to build a custom map yourself.
There is no consensus on what a country is. A few examples of divergences: Western Sahara is officially a country, but practically it's always been occupied by Morocco. Somalia is a mess, with Somaliland and Puntland being de facto independant coutries though noone acknoledge them officially. Between these two categories, Greenland, Nue and a few others are not fully independant.