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In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico (community.openstreetmap.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As of revision version #85, OpenStreetMap has the following tags for Golfo de México:

  • name:en Gulf of Mexico
  • official_name:en-US Gulf of America
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[–] 142 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Literally no one ever called it "Gulf of America" until January. I appreciate the generally thoughtful conversation on OSM, but there's no reason that declaration should be taken seriously.

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

    The maintainers were doing a good job reverting contributions for a while. Here's a good example: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/16

    They follow names assigned by https://unstats.un.org/unsd/ungegn/, and use the labels like en_US for official single-country names. While I would much prefer it remain an alt_name, I understand their rational. Ugh.

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