Trump’s “GULF OF Americana” has completely lost maps makers

In all, about 10 attempts to change the Gulf name were repeated last week on OpenStreetmap. Many shareholders claimed that OSM should wait Common For change before making editing to the primary name of the Gulf. “The primary goal of OSM is reflecting what people think on the ground is true without consensus,” says Keleford Snow, a member of the data working group in the organization that reflected some amendments that were made some amendments that were made to some of the editing.

I played again On Denali. But reaching the agreement may end up to prove difficulty. One of the shareholders wrote: “I don’t think OSM will be able to choose one (name), without offending some users somewhere.” “We need the way to get out of this quagmire that does not involve the liberation of wars.”

Other shareholders discussed when it would be appropriate to make changes. Service providers, including Google, say they follow the geographic names system for American Geological Survey (GNIS), but this database has not been updated with new names yet. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Elizabeth Salam refused to speculate on your time to reach USGs to address updates.

Under a 1947 LawThe decisions related to the geographical names that the US government will use must be taken by the Minister of the Interior PanelOr BGN, a committee of officials from a large group of government agencies. Gnis is a warehouse of BGN approved names.

As of Tuesday, at least one Runway Among BGN, no correspondence or records related to changing the name of the Gulf, according to a WIRED request under the Freedom of Information Law. This indicates that the usual mechanisms have not been involved, or that there is another authority to change the official name. The Ministry of Interior spokesman declined to comment.

Another point of uncertainty was whether the entire Gulf should be renamed. The President addressed the “American Al -Jarf district confined to the northeast, north and northwest by the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extends to the border towards the sea with Mexico and Cuba.”

But as one of the shareholders in OpenStreetmap wrote, “The Gulf of Mexico is much larger than this. So it seems instead of rename, this executive creates a new name for a sub -area of ​​the Gulf of Mexico.”

The White House did not respond to Wire’s request to clarify the intended limits of the new name. If the change is applied to any non -American region, the American National Spatial Reading Agency will have to update what is known as the geographic names servant, a database of foreign websites. The National Spatial Geographical Geographic Agency rejected the comment.

The discussion on Trump’s matter highlights the value of the existence of an open society trying to represent the complexity of the world. Currently, their discussion continues. “Ultimately, the OSM data work group intervened to put any major changes in the OSM database Until things become more clearHe says.

SNOW, a working group member, says that the veiled consensus leaves the Gulf of Mexico and Denali as basic names and Add a naming For each for the sake of the new American official name. But if the Gulf of America holds, the open source open map may have to follow up.

Additional reports from Tim Marsman.