ThoseWhoSquirm

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   by ThoseWhoSquirm 12d ago

   The president is the government as far as assigning or altering place names is concerned, but only for names not established by an act of Congress. That's why Trump was able to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinkley; he was
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   by ThoseWhoSquirm 12d ago

   >I am curious though - is it convention to leave the data as is, or is it illegal to modify it? Given the First Amendment, it's in no way illegal for individuals or corporations to use whatever place names they want. But if yout map
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   by ThoseWhoSquirm 12d ago

   We can do that for ourselves, but it's a lot harder for the operator of a massive maps platform, based from its inception on the use of the federally controlled GNIS, to just call things what they want, or even what most of their users