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[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I was curious about Open Street Maps, since anyone can edit it.

Gulf of America comes up specifically as an official name for US, and there is also a note about how if you change the English name without agreement in the discussion then it will be reverted:

screen shot showing Open Street Map tags as described above, including the statement "Please see (link to discussion) before editing the name of this feature. Undiscussed changes will be reverted."

Discussion is here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571

It seems the general consensus is that the US have that as an official name, but it's not the common English name so name:en stays as the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago

I was very happy to open up organic maps and see it still listed as Mexico.

I'm still trying to get out of Google maps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago