In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico
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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
Since Trump is slang for fart in UK, I propose it be re-renamed to Guff of America in his honour. I bet he wouldn't even notice.
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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
For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.
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Coming from lemmynsfw I would have figured you might know? Let me know if you learn anything in your research
It's a Donnie Darko reference. I'm surprised anyone cares who comes from what instance.
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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
That’s like… slightly more reasonable than I thought it was. But it’s still deeply fucking stupid.
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It's a Donnie Darko reference. I'm surprised anyone cares who comes from what instance.
I'm voting for Dukakis
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It's a Donnie Darko reference. I'm surprised anyone cares who comes from what instance.
Reference comments should stay on reddit.
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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
Hey. Your all blinded by this nothing and elon is getting contracts of money he dismantled from government. Congrats americans. Hope another cou try can put us in our place.
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... what's a fuckass?
It's just slang. I searched it on Startpage and it gives the definition : "used alone or as a noun or verb in various phrases to express annoyance, contempt, or impatience" which sounds right to me. I'd link it but I can't find where it sourced the definition.
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Hey. Your all blinded by this nothing and elon is getting contracts of money he dismantled from government. Congrats americans. Hope another cou try can put us in our place.
It's possible to know about this while also knowing that extreme fuckery is occurring. But its not like your average Lemmy user can do anything to stop either.
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Honestly, I think that we the people need to assert our own right to name things more often. I don't recall the latest name of the Brewers stadium in Milwaukee, for example. Whatever company that paid to have them put its name on the front didn't pay me. It's "the new County Stadium" as far as I'm concerned.
(I have no philosophical objection to the name, by the way. Reps of the new company can DM me, we can work out a deal.)
There's a county cricket ground near me that was naked the Hampshire Rose Bowl when it was first opened 25 years ago. In that time it has been renamed a number of times in honour of a selection of insurance companies I'd never heard of before, but to pretty much everyone in the area it's the Rose Bowl.
So yeah.
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It's a Donnie Darko reference. I'm surprised anyone cares who comes from what instance.
Nah, I don't care who comes from what instance but when it comes to anal references, I figured I'd make a bad joke, haha
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... what's a fuckass?
I got your Donnie Darko reference.
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Since Trump is slang for fart in UK, I propose it be re-renamed to Guff of America in his honour. I bet he wouldn't even notice.
Apparently the family name moving to America was "Trumpf", so that fits well given its a fart with a little trailing 'pfff', likely caused from the subtle loosening of a well used asshole.
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Hey. Your all blinded by this nothing and elon is getting contracts of money he dismantled from government. Congrats americans. Hope another cou try can put us in our place.
no doubt it's all been squirrelled away into crypto. They'll have fun trying to hold the guy accountable. Oh wait, no, accountability is for the poors.
Anyway, enjoy the sound of the keys jingling, folks -
As I explained to Google (from Dan McClellan) _references do not assert from fiat what things are called. A dictionary definition is not an official definition but what a word means or what a thing is called at the moment.
Most of the world calls it the Golfo de México or in English speaking regions, the Gulf of Mexico. Changing all the maps of the world won't change this.
Now granted, a state chooses what to call itself (such as the changing of The Ukraine to simply Ukraine but that is the incorporated entity that is the sovereign nation of Ukraine.
As the US does not have sovereign control of the Gulf of Mexico, it doesn't get to declare the name of a region of international waters.
This whole thing just makes the GOP, MAGA, the Trump administration and by proxy the people of the United States xenophobic and barbaric as hell. It's not a good look.
it was never “the ukraine”, russia just called it that because the ukraine was a region to them… like the great plains is to america…
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Hey. Your all blinded by this nothing and elon is getting contracts of money he dismantled from government. Congrats americans. Hope another cou try can put us in our place.
thank you, enlightened one… we are all forgetting every other crazy thing they’re doing and focusing exclusively on map apps….
we’re all so blind, thank you for helping us see! -
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
Why is this even being discussed?
Are they discussing renaming Taiwan to China as well?
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For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.
Aragonese?
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it was never “the ukraine”, russia just called it that because the ukraine was a region to them… like the great plains is to america…
Russian doesn't even have definite articles, to them it was always just Ukraine.
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Why is this even being discussed?
Are they discussing renaming Taiwan to China as well?
One way a global index can respect local authority would be for the index to acknowledge that within that territory, there is an official name for things.
They can also be pragmatic and acknowledge a common local name, the global consensus name, etc.
In many ways, it's just a further fragmentation like language.
