Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 week ago
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.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 week ago
The maintainers were doing a good job reverting contributions for a while. Here’s a good example: community.openstreetmap.org/t/…/16
They follow names assigned by unstats.un.org/unsd/ungegn/, and use the labels like
en_USfor official single-country names. While I would much prefer it remain analt_name, I understand their rational. Ugh.deathbird@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah I feel like there needs to be a huge asterisk by name declarations that, while formal/official in the barest sense, are blatantly arbitrary.