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:
[…] 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. IIRC, the correct CommonMark Markdown format for plain text links is to do <uri-inside-angle-brackets>; I’ll change the URL in the post’s body to that format to improve support. Thanks for letting me know! 😊
Looks like the thread is gone now, what was the discussion like?
To put it simple, they sayeach 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.
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 :)
The thread still works for me.
Oh I see the issue
The link in the post is fine, 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
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571
vs.
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571.
Thanks :)
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. IIRC, the correct CommonMark Markdown format for plain text links is to do
<uri-inside-angle-brackets>; I’ll change the URL in the post’s body to that format to improve support. Thanks for letting me know! 😊