zlatiah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agoIn light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexicocommunity.openstreetmap.orgexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1602arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1594arrow-down1external-linkIn light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexicocommunity.openstreetmap.orgzlatiah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square100fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
As of revision version #85, OpenStreetMap has the following tags for Golfo de México: name:en Gulf of Mexico official_name:en-US Gulf of America
minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·10 days agoThe maintainers were doing a good job reverting contributions for a while. Here’s a good example: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/16 They follow names assigned by https://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.
minus-squaredeathbird@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·10 days agoYeah I feel like there needs to be a huge asterisk by name declarations that, while formal/official in the barest sense, are blatantly arbitrary.
The maintainers were doing a good job reverting contributions for a while. Here’s a good example: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/16
They follow names assigned by https://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.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.