I hope this thread takes off. I would say that in the neighborhood of where I live:
Thailand :: Not Safe (USA has massive infrastructure in
the country, look for Voice of America radio stations which
bristle with more sat dishes and antennas than BBC or CNN
could use in their headquarters and you can guess what
they really are
Vietnam :: Not Safe
Laos :: Not sure, but the Laos government is not
terribly warm to the American government. However I expect
that they are open to the Vietnam and Chinese governments.
Either way, no place to host.
Cambodia :: Not sure, their recent extradition of the
Pirate Bay co-founder on trumped up visa issues was likely
from a simple bribe paid to a government official. And
anyway, services and infrastructure is still thin on the
ground. There still isn't even one data center in the
country that is independent of an ISP (I'm working to
change that :)
Myanmar :: No infrastructure and won't be safe from
local snooping when it is, though I don't think they will
share with the West either.
Singapore :: Not safe.
Malaysia :: Not Sure.
Indonesia :: Note Sure.
Hong Kong :: Was safe before the handover in 1997, I
owned an ISP there at the time and there was no meddling
that I could see. But it's a very different world now. I
would tend to stay away.
The github native viewer doesn't seem to allow for setting color to countries - or at least I can't work out how. You'd need to host it outside of github with json to do it, I think, which puts it on par with the current map?
I think you should also make it clear in the readme that just hosting data in a better jurisdiction doesn't help in a lot of cases, since if the data owner or host lives in a different less friendly jurisdiction the law becomes almost impossibly complex.
