Why the F.Y.R.O.M. is shown as "Macedonia" on the map?

The country F.Y.R.O.M. is shown on the map as “Macedonia”. This is SERIOUS mistake.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/53293
http://www.openstreetmap.org//#map=5/39.792/22.412&layers=Q

The OFFICIAL name by EU and U.N. is “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.

Member States of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/en/members/
http://www.un.org.mk/

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/26th-gegn-docs/WP/WP54_UNGEGN%20WG%20Country%20Names%20Document%202011.pdf list of country names (PAGE 116)

European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/countries/detailed-country-information/fyrom/index_en.htm

Most countries have several variants of his name.
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names
Example from the wiki: official_name=Principat d’Andorra [where name=Andorra]
Other examples, name=Italia official_name=Repubblica Italiana http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/365331

¿Why you set in your own profile that you are are from Macedonia? Maybe is the same reason (or the same mistake)…

Since you included the relation in your post, you also gave the answer. The standard map rendering uses the name field for each country. This field contains the name of the country in the (main) language of the country.

The standard map does not show the official UN name or the name in Dutch or …

I did a quick bit of research on why the choice of name might be sensitive, and my guess is that the OP’s Macedonia is the Greek one that caused the UN name to be changed. In that case, his best solution is to find, or sponsor the production of a Greek language rendering of the map. There is a tool for doing this on a small scale at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/, but to serve the whole Greek community, someone needs to donate server time. He could also sponsor the production of an UN:en rendering of the map (the multi-language map, above, doesn’t seem to recognize UN as a language, but does recognize el)…

The general policy for the name tag, and the default rendering is to use the name as it is actually used in the place that it names, with a preference for using what appears on road signs and name boards.

Please see http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf

Note that there is no such thing as a “official name” of countries and no body that decides on such outside of the country in question.

Strange that the name:el tag has “Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia” (in English) rather than “πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας” (as per https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%81%CF%8E%CE%B7%CE%BD_%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82)).


Steve

Missed that. It seems to have happened within edits 13 through 62, which have been redacted. I’m not sure how you can have redacted edits that introduce real changes. The changeset for version 63 is from the redaction robot.

Anyway, it means one can’t work out who did this.