I’m working on a live monitoring application using OpenStreetMap for the Indian region. I’ve noticed that the boundary between India and Pakistan doesn’t appear as expected in the default map view.
Since this is for a public application, we need the boundary to align with official Indian standards. I understand that OSM follows its own mapping guidelines for disputed borders, so I wanted to check, is there any recommended way within OSM to display India-compliant boundaries? Or is the best approach to overlay an official boundary dataset on top of OSM tiles?
If you are using vector tiles you can change the stylesheet to hide the parts tagged as disputed by India and show the parts claimed by it (or as you said, you can hide the entire border and overlay a different border)
Our database structure enables mapmakers to easily ignore this set and
substitute another more appropriate to your needs.
so using OSM data in general, but not for borders - and using other source for borders would be one of available options if that works well for you
I think that there were also attempts to map borders of India according to India (in addition to borders showing line of control), but not sure has it happened…