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:
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.
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.