Gulf of America - Gulf of Mexico
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President Donald Trump just said during his inauguration that he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Aside from the political aspects, how does that even work? How does OSM choose a source for that? I’m curious! Also, somebody executed what I thought while I wrote this post:
  • @[email protected]English
    4•22 days ago

    How would that even fit here? If the US changes the name there would be two names that fit that description (which isn’t uncommon at all tbh).

    • @[email protected]English
      6•22 days ago

      On osm there is one main attribute name, and other secondary names like alt_name, loc_name, official_name, etc, and different language versions of all of them e.g. name:en, name:es etc… This is not a political question, but technical, how it should be recorded according to the osm tagging scheme, how this rare situation should be mapped, it’s not straightforward. More info in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names