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mtgoat666
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Language is not static, words in use change over time, same with geographic names,… the common local usage drifts with time,… geographic names
were not etched in stone in the 1700s.
Maybe crowd sourcing (google maps, open street map) is best way to establish and document geographic names actually used by people, eh?
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Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  | Language is not static, words in use change over time, same with geographic names,… the common local usage drifts with time,… geographic names
were not etched in stone in the 1700s.
Maybe crowd sourcing (google maps, open street map) is best way to establish and document geographic names actually used by people, eh?
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on street level - sure
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Not personal, Harald... just the facts. 
Swapping the bay names at Gonzaga, the Arroyo el Volcán name with 'Zamora', etc. It is just careless work of a government employee.
Ensenada San Francisquito is the south half of the double bay, named after the gold ore mill, San Francisquito (later called Molino de Lacy) and
Puerto San Francisquito (later called Punta Final Resort).
Arroyo Las Arrastras on INEGI was Arroyo San Francisquito, named after the waterhole on El Camino Real, original called San Francisco 29.5522,
-114.3441. It is almost across the highway from the new Coco's Corner (at Las Arrastras)... just a little north. Anyway, that waterhole gave its name
to all the many San Francisquito's of this area.
From Howard Gulick in 1956:
[Edited on 5-2-2024 by David K]
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | Not personal, Harald... just the facts.
Swapping the bay names at Gonzaga, the Arroyo el Volcán name with 'Zamora', etc. It is just careless work of a government employee.
Ensenada San Francisquito is the south half of the double bay, named after the gold ore mill, San Francisquito (later called Molino de Lacy) and
Puerto San Francisquito (later called Punta Final Resort).
Arroyo Las Arrastras on INEGI was Arroyo San Francisquito, named after the waterhole on El Camino Real, original called San Francisco 29.5522,
-114.3441. It is almost across the highway from the new Coco's Corner (at Las Arrastras)... just a little north. Anyway, that waterhole gave its name
to all the many San Francisquito's of this area.
From Howard Gulick in 1956:
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Organizations like INEGI have procedures for managing place names. I am sure INEGI is following their internal procedures, and it is not a case of
“lazy government employees.”
If old place names have fallen out of use, and locals now use different names, why should INEGI use an old name that few or no locals are using?
INEGI building is cool
[Edited on 5-2-2024 by mtgoat666]
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I am not speaking of newer names, I am speaking of reversing names... a parallel arroyo and a neighboring bay both had their names reversed on INEGI
maps... That is just insulting.
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