As of revision version #85, OpenStreetMap has the following tags for Golfo de México:
- name:en Gulf of Mexico
- official_name:en-US Gulf of America
As an american. I want the option to display it as Gulf of Mexico. Like it’s always been before that fat sack of shit was trying to win points wit hracists to distract them from the hand reaching up their ass to fuck them.
As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.
Also no on renaming New Mexico.
“Petition to rename New Mexico to Freexico, and Mexico to Cartelistan”
So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It’s in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.
They could add a snowflake option that when activated makes it display as Gulf of America.
A checkbox labelled “Triggered” on the phone.
As an American I have to second this. Please don’t fall in line to lick trump’s boot
Literally no one ever called it “Gulf of America” until January. I appreciate the generally thoughtful conversation on OSM, but there’s no reason that declaration should be taken seriously.
name:en: Gulf of Mexicostupid_name:en-US-confederate-bootlicker: Gulf of Amerikkka
That should suffice.
OSM has a tag for everything, wow 😇❤️
Fun fact, per the executive order, the whole body isn’t being renamed the Gulf of America, only 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”. That is, less than the northern half, as indicated in this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_ECS_Regions_2023.png
I hope this is due to someone intentionally wording it to sound correct, but in reality being extra screwy so that they look like fools.
That’s like… slightly more reasonable than I thought it was. But it’s still deeply fucking stupid.
Just like I never called french fries freedom fries, I will never call the gulf of mexico the gulf of america
Hey. Your all blinded by this nothing and elon is getting contracts of money he dismantled from government. Congrats americans. Hope another cou try can put us in our place.
It’s possible to know about this while also knowing that extreme fuckery is occurring. But its not like your average Lemmy user can do anything to stop either.
thank you, enlightened one… we are all forgetting every other crazy thing they’re doing and focusing exclusively on map apps….
we’re all so blind, thank you for helping us see!no doubt it’s all been squirrelled away into crypto. They’ll have fun trying to hold the guy accountable. Oh wait, no, accountability is for the poors.
Anyway, enjoy the sound of the keys jingling, folks
Can we poll the community for alternate names that would enrage Trump? If it’s gonna change, let’s have fun with it.
Gulf of Veganism and Low Cholesterol
Gulf of Checks and Balances
Gulf of 34 Felony Counts
Gulf of Cheetos (let’s get those sweet advertising dollars while we’re at it)
Gulf of Insecurity
Kamala-Clinton Gulf
Gulf of Musk
🤢🤮
How about Gulf of they/them?
Gulf of 34 Felony Counts
We could tell these fuckers that Trump broke 34 rules and to Google “trump rule 34”, but given a) Trump’s history in the sexual department, and b) the fact most of them will actually jack off to this, I don’t think it’s a good idea
Let’s rename Montezuma’s Revenge to Trump’s Revenge while we are at it.
How is it the “official name” even for en-US? Trump isn’t the be all and end all of naming things. Every single rational, thinking person in the USA, and many, many people who aren’t so rational (Trump voters), still call it the Gulf of Mexico and always will. Official, my ass.
The early proposal of alt-name: en-US=Gulf of America seemed the most logical.
Holy hell, I hate this cursed timeline.
Because the United States Board on Geographic Names now says so, as demanded by Trump by Order No. 3423. They are the government body that defines what places are officially called.
But unless you are a US federal employee, as Nick Fury once said, “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.”
Why is this even being discussed?
Are they discussing renaming Taiwan to China as well?
The name itself can’t really change in OSM because it’s based on what someone “on the ground” would see, i.e. street signs, etc.
Previous OSM naming conflicts have usually been areas of disputed land where some group de-facto controls the land/people and therefore the street signs, and therefore the OSM ‘name’ tag.
That’s not going to work very well for a big region of mostly international waters between several countries.
Are you taking about Formosa or the Republic of China?
Taiwan is the island, also known as Formosa, and it is ruled by the Republic of China. Separately, but still part of that state, there’s the autonomous mainland provinces, calling themselves the People’s Republic of China, a rebel faction which somehow steadfastly refuses to declare independence.
Looking at it this way, I’d call the “mainland” part West Taiwan
Nah West Taiwan is the western half of Taiwan. It’s an island, not a state, just as Denmark is not Jutland, or Spain, or Portugal (fight!) Iberia.
You’re getting downvoted but you ain’t wrong.
For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.
Aragonese?
It is the gulf of mexico. The whole thing is just president musk and vp trump power tripping. Also a distraction from other, much worse thjngs happening right now.
Personally I’d prefer it if they spent all four years renaming things to Mount Hitler or whatever instead of doing anything actual.
If it was left up to Trump he probably would. I don’t think he’s entirely sane at this point, unfortunately there are plenty of people manipulating things behind the scenes and they do have plans.
Idk if this is true, but someone brought up it might be related to Biden putting in an order to not allow new drilling in the gulf of Mexico, so to get around it Trump and Co Just renamed it.
Again, no idea if this is true, haven’t had a chance to look it up since I heard it an hour ago or so, but it sounds plausible lol
Yeah but couldn’t he just resend the law. I can’t see why renaming it would be required, also if that’s true, what a stupid loophole.
If he is just going to make executive order to change shit he doesn’t like and not follow the law. Who says I have to follow them too? Still the Gulf of Mexico to me! 😂
Such a weird thing for everyone to fixate on and lose their shit. Let our dumbass en-US selves do whatever “official” dumbass thing we have to with the name.
Everyone else can leave it what it always was.
Next time there’s a Democrat U.S. President, the “en-US” term will be changed back to Gulf of Mexico.
This is stupid.
It’s true and it’s such a distraction. There is so much worse shit going on right now in the US government. I’m tired of not calling it a coup. It’s a coup. They’re trying to act like the judicial branch doesn’t get to determine what is and isn’t constitutional. So much shit.
As bad and as cringe as it is for the “Gulf of America” debacle to happen, it’s just genuinely not worth the headspace right now.
Mexicogolfen is pretty good.
