MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want
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Here Maps kept it as the Gulf of Mexico
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Not sure this falls flat or worse. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even a conversation. “It is what it is”
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Kind of makes me want to go back to printing 6 page instructions to destinations that I hold in my right hand and read whilst driving with my left hand.
You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.
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Not sure this falls flat or worse. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even a conversation. “It is what it is”
I think it's just making the point that anyone can name anything whatever they want, but it doesn't change what people call it. Obviously Trump thinks he's God so he probably actually thinks something has happened as a result of his declaration.
The stupid thing is every country and every language has always had different words for the same places.
The French don't call it France.
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I think it's just making the point that anyone can name anything whatever they want, but it doesn't change what people call it. Obviously Trump thinks he's God so he probably actually thinks something has happened as a result of his declaration.
The stupid thing is every country and every language has always had different words for the same places.
The French don't call it France.
The French don’t call it France.
What does this mean?
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You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.
I can draw a usefully realistic map of every city I've spent significant time in. I can also drive around a city as big as Los Angeles without GPS (though some of the fucking freeway exits in this town are fucking ass backwards).
So when I'm in a taxi this weekend in a different city (not an Uber, an actual licensed cab) and he can't even figure out where you want to go when showing him the map with the location.... wow. He never actually did figure out where we wanted to go, we just held the phone for him so he could follow the GPS directions to one of the more popular neighborhoods in the town he drives in professionally.
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The French don’t call it France.
What does this mean?
France is a pretty word example because most people do call it France. But technically the country is République français, or the French Republic.
But a better example would be a Germany; it's natively called Deutschland and dozens of languages call it Allemagne or variants of that.
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France is a pretty word example because most people do call it France. But technically the country is République français, or the French Republic.
But a better example would be a Germany; it's natively called Deutschland and dozens of languages call it Allemagne or variants of that.
That's true of a number of places, here are two I'm familiar with:
- Japan = Nippon
- Korea = HanGuk (Korea comes from an old state, Goryeo, that ended... >600 years ago, when Joseon took over)
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You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.
OpenStreetMaps works well, and OrganicMaps is really nice to use on mobile (same data, available offline).
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France is a pretty word example because most people do call it France. But technically the country is République français, or the French Republic.
But a better example would be a Germany; it's natively called Deutschland and dozens of languages call it Allemagne or variants of that.
Well they call it Français, not France
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