In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
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Persian Gulf or Gulf of Iran?
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If he is just going to make executive order to change shit he doesn’t like and not follow the law. Who says I have to follow them too? Still the Gulf of Mexico to me!
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Wait there's talk of renaming New Mexico‽
*after some digging *
Oh thank god it was just a joke
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Oh thank god it was just a joke
for now
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Comes down to the language/data of the user I guess
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New Mexico? You mean "South America", right?
(Everything south of the Rio Grande is now "Mexico". Except for the
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I'm hoping that my comment doesn't age like milk
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Fun fact, per the executive order, the whole body isn't being renamed the Gulf of America, only the "U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba". That is, less than the northern half, as indicated in this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_ECS_Regions_2023.png
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Gul;f of Musk
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But you couldn't tell, could you.
I'm keeping this joke alive as long as I can, until Trump gets wind of it and actually does it. -
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So now that is on the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.
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I just checked, and OSM has it as Persian Gulf, with the alternative name Arabian Gulf.
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"Petition to rename New Mexico to Freexico, and Mexico to Cartelistan"
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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.
