• OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    In OSM ″Gulf of America″ is added under official_name:en-US tag so if any app uses this tag to display names, it will show up.

    Here is the link to OSM object for Gulf of Mexico. And here is a thread that discusses naming.

    Any country/language can call any object as they want. This change of course was dumb and petty and doubt it will be adopted by other regions, but this is nothing new or special. Google Maps currently show ″Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)″ for me. When checking in another language it shows same naming standard.

    • mac@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah OSMand and organic maps update their data sets once a month or so. I know this as when I first started contributing I checked the app 100x bummed that my contributions weren’t there yet lol