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For the technicals, this is why data source malleability and decentralization is important, even if 99.9% of the time you never want to use it. How much needles
by mindslight 1mo ago
For the technicals, this is why data source malleability and decentralization is important, even if 99.9% of the time you never want to use it. How much needless sticky friction is there from people's workflows defaulting to "Google Maps" software, which has no option to actually pull up from this and let people decide "you know, this US GNIS doesn't seem very authoritative any more". Does OpenStreetMap show any inkling of propagating these stupid antics?
Politically, tell me again how the "unitary executive theory" (aka autocracy by any other name) is going to make our country "great" ? We're a fucking laughingstock - if this senile old man were in the correct venue of a memory care home, staff would have long ago learned to mitigate his behavior - and it's not like the rest of the world is blind to this! Instead the corpos and their stooges stuck him in the highest office in the land and let him loose from the rule of law, to destroy what last vestiges of Constitutional rights we have left. We're talking about what had been a straightforwardly trustable agency, now having that trust destroyed simply to preserve one idiot's ego after having been called on his bullshit.
- ura_yukimitsu 1mo agoOpenStreetMap keeps a collection of tags for each node, including "official names," so in that sense it does include records of these arbitrary renamings, but there are rules about naming things and to solve disputes/edit wars[1] (most commonly, the "on the ground" rule that reflects real world usage[2]). For example, see the Gulf of Mexico node[3], its wiki page[4], and the discussion following the executive order to rename it[5]. [1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Map_what's_on_the_ground https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Map_what's... [3]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190/history/143 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190/history/143 [4]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico [5]: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...