"To name is to claim". #Maps #toponyms https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/trump-maps-obsession-history-geopolitics-00339935
#toponyms
Oof. #Britannica renamed its article about *that* gulf into “Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of America”.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulf-of-Mexico-Gulf-of-America
Meanwhile, #Wikipedia still uses the prevailing name.
H.R.1161 - Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025
”To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland ‘Red, White, and Blueland’.”
🤦
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161/text
Make no mistake, #Whitenationalist #Hegseth saying that reverting the name of #FortLiberty back to #FortBragg is in honor of a #WWII #veteran is just cover for him wanting to continue to honor the #Confederate general #BraxtonBragg. Just another indication of our acceleration towards a #fascist White nationalist state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/hegseth-fort-bragg/index.html
#USpol #USpolitics #US #UnitedStates #CivilWar #Confederacy #Confederates #race #racism #toponyms
This news is not really surprising given that #GoogleMaps already serves government-compliant borders and labels depending from where you are visiting.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24353450/google-maps-rename-gulf-of-mexico-america-mt-mckinley
I had this interpretation while reading the EO, but it seems that the “Gulf of America” name only applies to the area inside U.S. 🇺🇸 EEZ + continental shelf and not the whole gulf. This is the same interpretation that @maproomblog states here: https://www.maproomblog.com/2025/01/naming-the-gulf/
This is analogous to the “West Philippine Sea“ name that the #Philippines 🇵🇭 uses to refer to its vicinity within the South China Sea and not to the whole sea.
As an amateur cartographer/geographer, this executive order making “Gulf of America” an official name in the United States for the Gulf of Mexico makes my head hurt. 🤬
Τόποι
(topos, plural topoi, not toposes)
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking SW (216°) from RMC 64.2278
Sol 1363, LMST: 15:00:27
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
Remember this (1st image) from Sep 29 this year?
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/113221415483088664
On Oct 28 #NASA published their own (cold color, 2nd cropped & animated image) version, only much larger, which luckily includes a good number of new (to me) #toponyms.
#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #Space #topoi #MartianTopography
Sheffield, England – Source: telegraph.co.uk
- Sheffield, England, UK = 544,402
2. Bakersfield, California = 403,455
3. Huddersfield, England, UK = 170,269
4. Springfield, Missouri = 170,067
5. Springfield, Massachusetts= 152,721
6. Fairfield, California = 119,881
7. Springfield, Illinois = 114,394
8. Chesterfield, England, UK = 89,181
9. Deerfield Beach, Florida = 86,339
10. Mansfield, Texas = 80,691
11. Broomfield, Colorado = 77,758
12. Fairfield, Connecticut = 61,512
13. Westfield, Indiana = 57,746
14. Springfield, Ohio = 57,622
15. Plainfield, New Jersey = 54,682
16. Bloomfield, New Jersey = 53,236
17. Chesterfield, Missouri = 49,327
18. Mansfield, Ohio = 48,201
19. Plainfield, Illinois = 44,762
20. Pittsfield, Massachusetts = 43,927
21. Brookfield, Wisconsin= 42,440
22. Enfield, Connecticut = 42,141
23. Westfield, Massachusetts = 40,330
SOURCES:
- https://www.thegeographist.com/uk-cities-population-100/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Missouri
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Connecticut
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_California
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Massachusetts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Illinois
- https://www.indiana-demographics.com/cities_by_population
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/ohio
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/texas
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/new-jersey
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/colorado
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/wisconsin
- https://www.biggestuscities.com/fl
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cities/massachusetts
https://panethos.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/largest-city-town-names-with-the-suffix-of-field/
#cities #field #geography #language #names #placeNames #suffixes #toponyms #towns
Wouldn't it be nice to call the islands in the pink zone on this map, here labelled as "South East Asia Isl.", Skaianesia instead?
σκαιός / skaios is the ancient Greek for west. The name I propose suits the group of islands that lie to the west of the other three named groups.
#SoutheastAsia #Placenames #Toponyms #AsiaPacificIslands #Geography #Onomastics
Useful for understanding the interactions between societies and their environments, the study of place names shows how place names are significant to the extent that people remember or forget them #toponyms
I can understand why so many Irish use "these islands" rather than "the British Isles".
Perhaps the UK and Irish governments could agree on a new geographical designation.
My suggestion: Islands of the North Atlantic.
I'm sure some pedants would object that some of these islands are not really in the Atlantic, but I think we could live with that.
I'm also sure Jacob Rees Mogg, the Daily Mail, and GB News would denounce such a change. In my book, that's all the more reason to go ahead.
I can imagine a ceremony taking place to celebrate the new name taking place on the island of IONA...
#Toponyms #BritishIsles #TheseIslands #Iona #IslandsOfTheNorthAtlantic
Should be interesting, unfortunately, I cannot attend, as it clashes with another mapping event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/669312641127 #placenames #logainm #toponyms
An issue long overdue. Far too many eponyms, like most toponyms, are the hangover of white male colonialism. Many such toponyms have reverted to historical, often locally used or descriptive names. Will scientific eponyms follow suit? Or begin anew? #NamingStandards #eponyms #toponyms #speciesnames
en. : interests :
#music
#traditionnalmusic
#ethnomusicology
#experimentalmusic
#soundscape
#freeimprovisation
#modularsynth
#fieldrecording
#occitan
#photo
#nature
#toponyms
#folklore
#storytelling
fr. : intérêts :
#musique
#musiquetraditionnelle
#ethnomusicologie
#musiqueexpérimentale
#paysagesonore
#improvisationlibre
#synthétiseurmodulaire
#occitan
#ṕhoto
#nature
#environnement
#toponymie
#contes
etc.
While looking into how Asturian towns happened in the places that they did (some in rather inhospitable spots) I happened upon this interesting article about Locational Fundamentals. Now I have to wonder what the path dependencies were to plop so many villages on top of hills with no water source.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/can-history-leave-towns-struck-places-bad-locational-fundamentals
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