In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
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Such a weird thing for everyone to fixate on and lose their shit. Let our dumbass en-US selves do whatever "official" dumbass thing we have to with the name.
Everyone else can leave it what it always was.
Next time there's a Democrat U.S. President, the "en-US" term will be changed back to Gulf of Mexico.
This is stupid.
It's true and it's such a distraction. There is so much worse shit going on right now in the US government. I'm tired of not calling it a coup. It's a coup. They're trying to act like the judicial branch doesn't get to determine what is and isn't constitutional. So much shit.
As bad and as cringe as it is for the "Gulf of America" debacle to happen, it's just genuinely not worth the headspace right now.
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It’s calles the Gulf of Mexico, people should stop using different names in different languages and use the actual name.
Like The Netherlands is called The Netherlands and two of it’s provinces are called Holland
it's a tricky question, arguably there are more people on this planet that call countries by their Mandarin name, followed by their Spanish name, followed by their English name, than the name in the native language.
De Guo > Alemania > Germany > Deutschland for example
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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
It is the gulf of mexico. The whole thing is just president musk and vp trump power tripping. Also a distraction from other, much worse thjngs happening right now.
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It is the gulf of mexico. The whole thing is just president musk and vp trump power tripping. Also a distraction from other, much worse thjngs happening right now.
Personally I'd prefer it if they spent all four years renaming things to Mount Hitler or whatever instead of doing anything actual.
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It is the gulf of mexico. The whole thing is just president musk and vp trump power tripping. Also a distraction from other, much worse thjngs happening right now.
That's what my dog does.
He tears into the couch in one side of the house to get you annoyed, then runs to eat cat litter, then runs upstairs to take the kid's toys.
Do enough chaos to get something and tire us out.
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Nah West Taiwan is the western half of Taiwan. It's an island, not a state, just as Denmark is not Jutland, or Spain, or Portugal (fight!) Iberia.
Technically correct. The state is the RoC and Taiwan is just the island.
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That's what my dog does.
He tears into the couch in one side of the house to get you annoyed, then runs to eat cat litter, then runs upstairs to take the kid's toys.
Do enough chaos to get something and tire us out.
OMG, we have to see pics of this cute criminal!
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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
Golfo de México is just as annoying, well done.
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it's a tricky question, arguably there are more people on this planet that call countries by their Mandarin name, followed by their Spanish name, followed by their English name, than the name in the native language.
De Guo > Alemania > Germany > Deutschland for example
Which is why I'll never call Turkey "Türkiye", though they're free to call themselves that. I don't see Germany insisting I call it Deutschland, after all.
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It is the gulf of mexico. The whole thing is just president musk and vp trump power tripping. Also a distraction from other, much worse thjngs happening right now.
Idk if this is true, but someone brought up it might be related to Biden putting in an order to not allow new drilling in the gulf of Mexico, so to get around it Trump and Co Just renamed it.
Again, no idea if this is true, haven't had a chance to look it up since I heard it an hour ago or so, but it sounds plausible lol
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Personally I'd prefer it if they spent all four years renaming things to Mount Hitler or whatever instead of doing anything actual.
If it was left up to Trump he probably would. I don't think he's entirely sane at this point, unfortunately there are plenty of people manipulating things behind the scenes and they do have plans.
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Idk if this is true, but someone brought up it might be related to Biden putting in an order to not allow new drilling in the gulf of Mexico, so to get around it Trump and Co Just renamed it.
Again, no idea if this is true, haven't had a chance to look it up since I heard it an hour ago or so, but it sounds plausible lol
Yeah but couldn't he just resend the law. I can't see why renaming it would be required also if not he's, what a stupid loophole.
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As an American, I will refuse to call it fuckass gulf of america.
IDK, the fuckass kind of gives it a ring, you know? Maybe fuckass Gulf of Mexico?
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