Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

[ick@infosec.pub]

I am using Magic Earth for navigation. Any recommended companion iOS apps for contributing to OSM?

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

This should be only for users in that shithole.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

The difference is that it's intentional waters and the International Hydrographic Organization is in charge of standardizing the names.

[beardedblaze@lemmy.world]

Weird, google maps still shows it as Kaliningrad, along with the Cyrillic spelling.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

The International Hydrographic Organization is in charge of name standards in international waters. The United States is a member.

[merde@sh.itjust.works]

people don't degoogle to use apple instead

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

It’s local, same as Gulf of America which is still Gulf of Mexico for me because that’s the official name here.

[accideath@lemmy.world]

I disagree on the Pluto stance because it being classified as a dwarf planet makes sense for various reasons and isn’t about the ego of a racist megalomaniac.

[joel_feila@lemmy.world]

Actually very little of the gilf falls into international waters

[rxbrad@infosec.pub]

The IHO proposes names which world nations may or may not use.

Such is the case with the "Southern Ocean" around Antarctica since the early 2000s, which is randomly recognized & not recognized by world nations.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

A line joining Cape Catoche Light (21°37′N 87°04′W) with the Light on Cape San Antonio in Cuba, through this island to the meridian of 83°W and to the Northward along this meridian to the latitude of the South point of the Dry Tortugas (24°35'N), along this parallel Eastward to Rebecca Shoal (82°35'W) thence through the shoals and Florida Keys to the mainland at the eastern end of Florida Bay and all the narrow waters between the Dry Tortugas and the mainland being considered to be within the Gulf.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

This is super dumb.

How are these morons so offended about the name of a body of water?

Their fragile ego is so completely shattered because Mexico "has a Gulf" and they "don't"?
Little men with too much power.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

You mean West coast?

I mean, if I'm facing south, the left coast is the East coast.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

I support this.

But we should probably at least have a conversation with Mexico about it, since something like half of their country borders it.
IDK, I failed geography.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

Why would the name have any bearing on the laws that govern what can, and can't be done there?

This is so freaking dumb I can't even.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

California should just change Gulf of California to Gulf of Mexico

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

Biden outlawed oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Trump used executive order to rename it so the Gulf of Mexico “doesn’t exist”.

I'd be very surprised if all laws/treaties cease to exist if you just rename the "counterparty"/location. Declare Mexico to be named South Texas, and laws no longer apply there?

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

It still requires Congress to pass legislation. I think they would have to leave the organization entirely or amend the resolution to join it and recognize it's naming convention. The executive order is illegal.

[justenoughducks@feddit.nl]

Except when it is frustrating and continually tries to send you through tiny "technically paved" service roads so you know anyone unfamiliar to the area would risk car damage because there is no way to mark a road as "low priority" or "only use if you live on that road".

[rxbrad@infosec.pub]

I don't disagree.

But recent interpretation of the use of executive order is hurtling toward the president having near-monarch authority

So, until the reach of executive orders gets reigned in... here we are.