I’m a hydrogeo nerd, want to label every single named body of water. If the name is contentious I use the IHO name right? Is using local public domain government cartography allowed to fix roads? The gov ones here are correct, and the ones currently on are about a meter south of the official measurements.
Welcome to OSM! Which bodies of water aren’t either labeled or in active discussion (a la Gulf of Amexico)?
The Gulf of Mexico (as recognized by all signatories to the UN), is one I noticed, I’m currently using open source sat images to find unnamed bodies of water that meet the legal definition to get an internationally recognized name. Mostly focusing on lakes in Latin America. I have coordination contacts with some of these countries, so they will likely accept the names that I suggest and they would become official if accepted. What is the current policy on contested naming for areas like Taiwan, Occupied Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, etc. Trying really hard to not run afoul of policy or start fights guys. I feel like giving an authoritarian what he wants just because he happens to be president of an influential country is bad. If OSM does change it to something different than it has been known since 1550, it would reflect an unimaginable level of bias.
Thanks for taking the time to ask first. You can read through the discussion on the gulf here:
I highly recommend if you’re serious about this project to read through the post, linked items, the wiki for names / officials names / regional names / etc. and for disputes on wiki.osm.org.
OK, how do I call for an enforcement action to enforce the rule, the undisputed English name following Disputes - OpenStreetMap Wiki is Golf of Mexico. It is a violation of policy, and it is frankly silly and puts the reputation of the project on the line. If I edit in following the unambiguous policy, of what people who actually live there call is what OSM calls it.
The node in OSM is the Gulf of Mexico if you would please read the whole thread I linked instead of bits and pieces since you are so passionate about this.
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Documented linked cites the on the ground rule, I can perform a representative survey, of the on ground name, can you help me find the requirements and who I have to send it to? I only realized, this was an issue when the label stopped showing on my map. I was using that map to find bodies of water using satellite data and computer vision, and it detects the Gulf of Mexico as not having a node. I’m willing to do the groundwork. Heck, I can probably get at least one country to do an official election.
I’m not sure what’s going on with your map. OSM hasn’t actually changed anything that would affect the Gulf of Mexico label in either English or Spanish, and there doesn’t seem to be much interest in doing so. The node is still there. People have only proposed, at most, adding some extra metadata so that someone who actually wants “Gulf of America” will see that, or mapping a second “gulf” for that name, but that hasn’t happened yet.
If you could provide more details about your map and how it’s implemented, like which style you’re using, then it might be possible to identify the underlying problem.
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Node: Golfo de México (305639190) | OpenStreetMap I can see the node is there, but QGIS says there isn’t a node there, there was a node there yesterday. I haven’t changed anything, I can see the labels on the Great Lakes but not the Gulf. I can see the names of every other famous gulf in QGIS, that one is particular is just not showing even a node. It shows the node on the online map.
When naming waterbodies, please do not create new multipolygon objects by collecting thousands of coastline segments, and do not introduce pseudo lines across the open sea where you (or the IHO or anyone) believes the named waterbody to end. Instead, use a single node placed in the center of the waterbody.
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Oh, yeah, please, just spent several hours last week on the thousands of outer and inner segments of the Adriatic to get a sandbank in the right way after it was wronged, and now waters along Southern Italy are flaring up because 3 islets were given an inner when they’re actually parts of the Ischia island jurisdiction and 6 more boundaries were not associated which probably would need to be.
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Please tell us the exact QGIS message. How you loaded the data, what are the layer settings, what tools you are using to inspect, etc.
This was resolved in the other thread:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/162
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