Gulf of Make a Report to Apple

[adespoton@lemmy.ca]

That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.

Unlike Google Maps/Earth….

[cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de]

You have to access it from a US IP address to get the new name.

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

I'm going to start calling it the United States of America of Mexico and sometimes Canada.

[melroy@kbin.melroy.org]

Its only for US users, no worry hehe

[paraphrand@lemmy.world]

It says my report is “in review” and I’ll be notified when they review it.

I wonder how that will go, and how fast.

[yonder@sh.itjust.works]

Don't worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

I don't really know how to feel about this.

Was it decreed by an absolute narcissist for no reason other than the kind of blatant arrogance Americans are notorious for? Absolutely.

Was it also completely legal? As far as I can tell. It's not really these companies' place to resist map name changes, it's the citizens' and our representatives'.

Does it have anything at all to do with fascism? No.

[ste41th@lemmy.ml]

United States of Amerixco

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

Mexico Jr.

[jdeath@lemm.ee]

fascism is when i don’t like something, right?

[firetower@lemmy.world]

Shout out to the menial workers at Apple Maps who are going to have a crap day at work tomorrow because of the thing their boss made them do, so they don't get fired and replaced by someone else who would do it.

[zephyrxero@lemmy.world]

I just sent one in to Google Maps. Clearly it must be a bug. No such place exists

[soapbox1858@lemm.ee]

I can't be the only one who feels like this is the absolute lowest priority of dumb shit to resist the regime over. It's just filler. Another thing he is doing to flood the zone. But one that really doesn't hurt anything. It's a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

[koalaunknown@lemmy.world]

It’s being rolled out slowly. I still can only see Gulf of Mexico.

[sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today]

You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn't care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.

[greatblueheron@lemmy.ca]

I get what you're saying but, as someone observing from outside, stuff like this is all I can do to resist.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, I mean it's just books those nazis are burning, it doesn't hurt anything, no need to discuss it. /s

US fascists are fucking rewriting the world and eradicating historical name, I consider it actual damage.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

I use Naziland

[lemjukes@lemm.ee]

lol, the iOS app won’t let me submit a ‘name is wrong’ report.

[thisisnothim@sopuli.xyz]

At the same time it's the map's job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there's an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.

Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn't make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.

At least that's from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.