President Donald Trump just said during his inauguration that he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Aside from the political aspects, how does that even work? How does OSM choose a source for that? I’m curious! Also, somebody executed what I thought while I wrote this post:
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.
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.
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=seaboundary=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.
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
I think the discussion there is quite reasonable given the circumstances, and
official_name:en-USonce the GNIS updates is the correct way to go until people actually start calling it the new name.what a stupid timeline this is
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.
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=seaboundary=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.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