joostjakob

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[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Djeez, little quick on the gun, aren't we?

Yeah, an unsourced screenshot is a little light on detail for me. And I'd like to share the story further, but for that I want more context. Also, I'm interested to learn more about this, just because I find it an interesting story..

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I could easily find articles on his being in custody, but I didn't find any references for his Trump support. Where should I look?

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) "the official name that the US says it has". In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any "official US names that are not in common use yet". Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

It's generous to call that an article. Just a bunch of "some folks said on X" quotes. Doesn't really belong in this community IMHO

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn't talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn't hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one...

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Unless of course our luck runs out and someone pushes the nuclear button

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The MJT looks like it is worth making a huge detour for

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Plenty of countries have those. There's even exclaves within enclaves.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I knew it sounded familiar. It even has a name and a wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's been the worst year since 2018 Incredibly, only two years before 2018 were actually better than 2024. https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/113735310494361049

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