Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

singletona@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.

  Also no on renaming New Mexico.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait there’s talk of renaming New Mexico‽

    *after some digging *

    Oh thank god it was just a joke

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh thank god it was just a joke

      for now

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      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m hoping that my comment doesn’t age like milk

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Next month:

      • Texas -> Roof Tiles
      • El Paso -> The Pass
      • The Alamo -> The Poplar
      • Santa Fe -> Holy Faith
      • Nevada -> Snowed
      • Colorado -> Red
      • Palo Alto -> High Stick
      • Nogales -> Walnuts
      • Los Angeles -> The Angels …

      Paper companies would make a killing profit this period.

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      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Baton Rouge -> Red Stick

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      • diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        • Nogales -> Walnuts

        How about you rename deez (wal)nutz

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      New Mexico? You mean “South America”, right?

      (Everything south of the Rio Grande is now “Mexico”. Except for the Panama America canal.)

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    • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But you couldn’t tell, could you. 😂 I’m keeping this joke alive as long as I can, until Trump gets wind of it and actually does it.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Petition to rename New Mexico to Freexico, and Mexico to Cartelistan”

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• joostjakob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So now that is on the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It’s in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.

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• 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As an American I have to second this. Please don’t fall in line to lick trump’s boot

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They could add a snowflake option that when activated makes it display as Gulf of America.

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A checkbox labelled “Triggered” on the phone.

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