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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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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/.
- §"Sec. 4"

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's a general suggestion in the light of the recent political developments. I think OSM shouldn't just go out and follow every random suggestion any politician makes.

This isn't the only region recently contested by one leader either

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

[…] I think OSM shouldn’t just go out and follow every random suggestion any politician makes. […]

I think there's some use in including a countries official names for specific features, in some way. I'm not saying that the primary name should be that, but it's at least a name that is known and conceivably could be searched.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Official, yes. But this isn't official (yet). For search it makes sense tho

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

[…] this isn’t official (yet). […]

Fair point! ^[1]^

References

"Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness" Executive Order 14172. Published: 2025-01-31 (Signed: 2025-01-20). Accessed: 2025-02-05T21:10Z. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02096/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness.
- §4.b.
  
  As such, within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall, consistent with 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, take all appropriate actions to rename as the “Gulf of America” 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 in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico. […]
  - The executive order states that 30 days from the date the order was signed, or perhaps 30 days from the date it was published, The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed to "The Gulf of America". This will either happen on 2025-02-19 (at the earliest), or 2025-03-02 (at the latest).