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The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" (community.openstreetmap.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]

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"Gulf of America - Gulf of Mexico". stillhart. General talk. OpenStreetMap Community Forum. Published: 2025-01-20T17:37:25.493Z. Accessed: 2025-01-21T08:47Z. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571.
"Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness". The White House. Published: 2025-01-20. Accessed: 2025-01-22T06:59Z. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/.
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think the discussion there is quite reasonable given the circumstances, and official_name:en-US once the GNIS updates is the correct way to go until people actually start calling it the new name.

what a stupid timeline this is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The problem they are addressing right now is that "Gulf of America" is not an equivalent name, as "Gulf of America" can and will only apply to the waters next to USA states, so it is a regional name, official or regular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Hmm, right. This makes it somewhat more complicated. If this new name starts being used by many people and organizations, I suppose it would make sense to create a new ~~place=sea~~ boundary=maritime, but until then it'd be kind of stupid to pollute the map with a new entity just because it's in the official records.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Wiki says we should use ISO 639 language codes, but en-us is a BCP 47 code. There is a section about this on the wiki, that we should switch for that standard because of situations like this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names#Issues