In total, about 10 attempts to change the name of the bay have been restored over the past week to OpenStreetmap. Several colleagues claimed that OSM should wait Widespread use in society Change before editing to the basic name of the bay. “The main goal of OSM is to reflect what people on Earth are correct, striving for accuracy and neutrality in the face of various perspectives,” says Clifford Snow, a member of the organization of the organization’s working group, which reversed some of the editorial office allegedly made without consensus.
He played similar in the ass Over Denali. But reaching an agreement can be tough. “I don’t believe OSM will ever be able to choose one [name]Without insulting the user somewhere, “wrote one of the colleagues. “We need a path from this fat that does not cover the edition of wars.”
Other colleagues discussed when it would be appropriate to make changes. Failure suppliers, including Google, say that they follow the information system of geographical names in the USA (GNIS), but this database has not yet been updated with modern names. A spokesman for the interior department Elizabeth Peace refused to speculate when USGS staff can process updates.
Under 1947 LawDecisions on the one whose geographical names will apply the US government It takes on the geographical nameor BGN, a panel of officials from a little government agencies. Gnis is a repository of names approved by BGN.
From Tuesday, at least one replaced member BGN did not receive any correspondence or registers related to the change of the bay name, in accordance with the application submitted by the Act on freedom of information. This suggests either ordinary mechanisms have not been involved or that another authority is used to change the official name. A spokesman for the Interior Department refused to comment.
Another point of uncertainty was whether the entire bay should be renamed. The President’s Order turned to: “The US continental zone limited in the northeast, north and northwest by the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and stretching to the sea border with Mexico and Kuba.”
But as one of the participants of OpenStreetmap wrote: “The Gulf of Mexico is much larger than this. So it seems that instead of changing the name, this management creates a new name for the substance of the Gulf of Mexico. “
The White House did not answer Wired to explain the intended boundaries of the modern name. If the change were to comply with any territory except the US, the American Geosphatial-Intelligence Agency would have to update the so-called geographical name server, the name of names for foreign locations. The National GeoStial-Intelligence Agency refused to comment.
Mikel Maron, spokesman for the OpenStreetmap Foundation, which helps the board of volunteers’ efforts, says that the debate on the Trump’s Order emphasizes the value of having an open community trying to represent the complexity of the world. For now, their discussion continues. “Ultimately, the OSM Foundation data group entered to maintain any major changes in the OSM database Until everything is clear– says.
Snow, a member of the working group, says that popularity is popular in the Gulf of Mexican and Denali as the basic names and adding a label for each of the modern official US name. But if the Gulf of America caught, the Open Source map may be necessary.
Additional Tim Marchman reports.