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afavourtoday at 6:11 PM1 replyview on HN

No, they show what the respective governments describe them as in official datasets etc.


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allturtlestoday at 6:19 PM

> No, they show what the respective government datasets contain

Which matches popular usage in the respective countries. Your example is a non sequitir for explaining why matching popular usage can't possibly work.

For the popular usage of major geographical features to change is extremely rare, so I am skeptical that it's a huge amount of work to keep up with changes in popular usage. People made maps before they had automated pipelines for ingesting geographical names.

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