Christopher Beddow

Look into Wheelmap and Access map and the Taskar Center at Univ of Washington

Discovery and Rediscovery in Spatial Data Knowing what is where, how to get there, what it's like, and why

Read my latest writing about how everything mapped needs to be seen, and recorded for the first time--and sometimes measured over and over again!

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OpenStreetMap in the wild!

On the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen news website showing dam and hydroelectric upgrades in the Alps.

I check in to BlueSky after a week off and it's still primarily Gulf chatter

Will check back in another week

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I will add that I think the website called DataCamp is fantastic for getting the basics of Python and SQL, and it has a geospatial course too. From there keep looking how to apply it to your work or your interests.

Try to get on Upwork to look for small freelance GIS tasks to apply the skills too

In my opinion depends if it was a lake first or reservoir first. In almost all cases it was a stream that was modified into a reservoir, is my guess. So the one that was first!

Wonderful news!

STAC in QGIS | Lutra Consulting In this blog post we will walk you through the new feature we added in QGIS to access, browse and filter SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) data.

#STAC native support in #QGIS:
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It does some amazing things helping with coding questions, stats, figuring out how to properly resize images... But that's all Python libraries

It may not be good with QGIS, but even there saves time vs digging through Stack Overflow

It's made a lot of people's lives easier in my opinion

This is what is nice about multiple official names is you and me can call it Denali and we are totally correct still

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The OSM foundation would block renaming a map feature? I am not saying it should be renamed but if the USGS and other agencies officially adopt the new name then OSM tends to reflect that in some way

Well, OSM is not a display map service so it wouldn't be able to handle that. MapTiler, Stadia, Mapbox all use OSM and handle regional requirements. Just like Google Maps.

OSM is just a database and most people who ever see OSM data do not see it directly

I can't remember the first fee but there were hikes later, I remember when a lot of websites started having the watermark on their Google maps embeds saying API key required or for development use only

Well, then it's just everybody trying to reverse everyone else

It would work fine with two names and not fighting over one

What if OpenStreetMap renames it though

Yes which is what you proposed haha

Somebody should propose it first! I do seem to think Oceania was not so used as a continent name until more recently (when I was a child I think the continent as a whole was Australia, maybe wrong?)

Yeah agreed. Anyway I think this whole story is a nothingburger until the USGS officially makes a change, which I am not sure will ever happen

Well yes partially, it could become the American English name (if it were legally approved) and the one displayed when user GPS is in that region

It would remain Gulf of Mexico (Gulfo de México etc) in various other translations

I agree and nobody should change it based off current dialogue, just wondering if people would refuse to change it in OSM even if it went through full legal renaming or not

Toponymy in Mapping The past, present, and future of place names

It also makes changes. Old printed maps will show Sea of Cortez for examples after Hernán Cortes, but which was renamed over change in political and cultural perspectives.

Egypt is also called Masr in Arabic, and many other very different names.

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Just larger, but with lower taxes

In a Spanish language map it'd Nueva York, and Germany becomes Alemanía. Actually super common practice. In Switzerland they even change it based on national language, somehow nobody melts down.

For Denali is should be easy, places around the world have 2+ names. In Switzerland you easily have German, Rumansh, Italian etc names. New Zealand maps this well too.

It will always be Denali and can be called McKinley as it was for a long time, by those who want.

Although political name changes are an annoyance, and politically driven map edits/reverses are too, I do think there's an okay logic in using América (with accent) that many countries (like those in OAS) say is the name of the vast region, as a name for the Gulf.

Perhaps "Gulf of the Américas"

To be honest the alternatives are really bad especially in USA.

OpenStreetMap data is the closest, which is a database not a maps app. You can see everything from OpenStreetMap in Organic Maps and use that day to day. I recommend trying to use it as much as you can and registering to edit OSM.

This is correct. In the end the names are very centralized based on what's official. I don't think most maps say Sea of Cortez anymore because of official changes, while Gulf of Mexico still remains official.