Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
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I can't seem to do this from the phone app
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This whole thing is extremely cringe. There isn’t any other way to put it. Trump. His executive order. The compliance. It’s all cringe.
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Expect in the near future:
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) (Gulf of Cuba)
Greenland (New Alaska) (New Siberia)
Gaza Strip (New Houston)
Falkland Islands (Las Islas Españolas) (Les Îles Napoléon)
Antarctica (American Liberty Glacier) -
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Genuinely curious... How does Google handle other oceanic naming that isn't agreed upon Worldwide?
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I somehow have a feeling that being president of the USA does not mean you can do whatever you want and people have to follow... Google Map, for one, is a product of a private company, not a Federal Service of the USA - so if they want to call it "Gulf of Google", they could!
Then you're right, they already protect/black out places and some places' names, however the Gulf of America, like the Channel of Washington are just bs that in the worst case scenario will live 4 years. So it's a joke and I like joking too -
That solves the problem this time, but it doesn't help if I'm trying to navigate somewhere new.
If it doesn't have the address for a 30-year-old house in a major metropolitan area, then I just don't think it's a viable replacement for Google Maps, unfortunately.
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My test search for the UPS store up the street sent me 4km away. So...not great.
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This doesn't really have anything to do with facts, though. Names of people, objects and places change all the time.
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Personally I think that obeying in advance only makes it a riskier place for the employees, but it is not my decision to make.
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Next president, assuming there is one, will just change it back to repair relations with our allies.
Even if it never gets changed back, it'll be a generation before people actually start calling it that. No one alive now is going to give a fuck about the Gulf of America or call it that.
Hey conservatives, not that you're intelligent enough to figure out how to get on Lemmy, but if by some miracle one of you reads this, why is Trump doing this and floating invading our allies and annexing their territories instead of lowering the price of groceries as promised on day 1?
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Bingo.
Imagine getting every "alpha male" 2A nutjob violent conservative to realize who their actual enemy is.
We'd get some actual positive change in an extremely short period of time.
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A born rich low IQ loser jerking himself off while we're all forced to watch.
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Google can officially gargle deez nutz
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I wish OSM had the resources to make something akin to Pokemon Go but instead of capturing something, it adds it to the database.
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You are in luck my friend: https://streetcomplete.app/
They have made it super easy and fun. I have been playing it for nearly a year and have made a pretty big dent in my local dense metro area.
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oh yay!!
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Organic Maps has fewer features and settings and concentrates on what most people use the most (find an address, navigate to it).
It is also much, much faster than OsmAnd.
