Gulf of America - Gulf of Mexico
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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:
  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Looks like the thread is gone now, what was the discussion like?

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      To put it simple, they say each country can decide what name to use for where, and that’s what OSM uses as a reference.

      What it is called however is not by defined by what the president says alone though, it has to go through the entire government bureaucracy thing.

        • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          6·
          14 hours ago

          […] the link in the post body goes to a “page doesn’t exist or has been deleted” message because of the period at the end […]

          Ah! Interesting! That’s good to know. I didn’t consider that some Lemmy apps or browser UI’s might not format the Markdown how I’ve been expecting. The correct CommonMark Markdown syntax for plain text links is to do <uri-inside-angle-brackets> [1]; I’ll change the URL in the post’s body to that format to improve support. Thanks for letting me know! 😊

          References
          1. “CommonMark Spec”. John MacFarlane. Version: 0.31.2. Published: 2024-01-28. Accessed: 2025-01-21T01:27Z. https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#autolinks.
            • §6.5 (“Autolinks”):

              Autolinks are absolute URIs and email addresses inside < and >. They are parsed as links, with the URL or email address as the link label.

              A URI autolink consists of <, followed by an absolute URI followed by >. It is parsed as a link to the URI, with the URI as the link’s label.

              An absolute URI, for these purposes, consists of a scheme followed by a colon (:) followed by zero or more characters other than ASCII control characters, space, <, and >. If the URI includes these characters, they must be percent-encoded (e.g. %20 for a space).

              For purposes of this spec, a scheme is any sequence of 2–32 characters beginning with an ASCII letter and followed by any combination of ASCII letters, digits, or the symbols plus (“+”), period (“.”), or hyphen (“-”).

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I just checked, and it’s only the link in the post body

        It has a period at the end, and so my client opened an error page. I can see it now :)