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The OSM Community discusses the Trump Administration's renaming of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America"
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Looks like the thread is gone now, what was the discussion like?
Hrm, I can still see it.
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 :)
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.