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sokolofftoday at 9:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

The executive orders are ridiculous/childish/whatever-you-call-this. That aside, if they have any legal effect, I’d expect a map company to call a feature by its legal name.

Should a rendering of the land bordering the Southwest corner of the Black Sea show the city of Istanbul? Or must it remain depicted as Constantinople? Or perhaps even Byzantium?


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nergotoday at 10:12 PM

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iAMkenoughtoday at 10:15 PM

Technically the border goes through the middle of the lake, and each side has their own legal name.

Is it legally one lake with two names, or two lakes with one name?

What should customers in neither country see displayed? What if the federal government renames New Mexico to New America, but the state government refuses?

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