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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico#Name

Basically they list all, with gulf of mexico as the default for the en locale and an entry for official name in en-US

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So Apple is specifically choosing the government tag then.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes. Without knowing their infrastructure, they obviously cache and probably process the raw OSM data locally. If they chose to use their own overrides or the official-tag is impossible to tell.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve only ever done a few edits to OSM. Didn’t know the finer details.

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