Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 week agoThe 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_US for official single-country names. While I would much prefer it remain an alt_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.