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Disputed territories
Areas with contested sovereignty (e.g. Crimea, Kashmir, Western Sahara) may appear in different admin boundary sources assigned to different countries, causing double-counting or gaps in cross-vendor crosswalks.
Class
Case to account for
Affects
3 conversions
01
Detection
Same geographic area claimed by two country/region features across vendor boundary sets; overlapping polygons from different sources.
02
Mitigation
01
Pick and document a single boundary-source convention (e.g. de facto control) per delivery
02
Flag disputed-area cells in provenance metadata rather than silently picking one side
03
Affected conversions
Admin polygonsH3 (max-overlap partition)
OPENAdmin polygonsH3 (weighted crosswalk)
OPENH3platform-native IDs
OPEN