Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
qaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To reiterate, GNIS and GNS are only relevant to an appropriately qualified official_name tag, not a name tag, because of the on the ground rule. For this kind of feature, common sense would place a lot of weight on overall common usage, since sending someone to survey the facts “on the ground” would be… difficult.
Yeah that certainly seems difficult