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The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" (community.openstreetmap.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

What the hell is "the ground rule"? Naming is artificially defining things and as that basically arbitrary.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    @menemen “on the ground rule”, it means you go there and see what it's being called there. We don't just follow diktats from one office.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How would that even fit here? If the US changes the name there would be two names that fit that description (which isn't uncommon at all tbh).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    On osm there is one main attribute name, and other secondary names like alt_name, loc_name, official_name, etc, and different language versions of all of them e.g. name:en, name:es etc... This is not a political question, but technical, how it should be recorded according to the osm tagging scheme, how this rare situation should be mapped, it's not straightforward. More info in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah lemme just get on a boat in the Gulf and look for signs showing its name

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