Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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PLEASE.DO IT
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Imagine being a tourist in the US, looking for an address you believe to be say, Martin Luther King Street. Can't find it anywhere, even on Google maps, then eventually you talk to someone and find out it's now called Elon Musk Avenue.
Not saying this is exactly the same, but if we're letting people change the names of places on commonly used global map software willy nilly, even if it's just region to region, we're gonna end up with problems. It's not like "freedom fries" back in the day that legitimately affected no one.
And I am suddenly seeing a parenthetical on the Gulf here outside the US, so there technically was a sudden change
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I can confirm that it shows up as both for me. I'm not in US or Mexico, and it shows as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". The info I saw was that it shows as GoA in the US, GoM in Mexico, and both everywhere else. At least 2 of those are true, I'm guessing all 3 are
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That is essentially what they've done by putting Gulf of America in brackets behind the original name.
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potus is the "head of government". Would you prefer him to write your head of government?
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You underestimate how much I enjoy arguing with people on the internet, lol.
So is this your admission that your earlier statement was false, or are you still pretending that "part of" is the same thing as "all"?
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That would be less inaccurate, lol.
And no. I'll be a pedantic asshole to anyone who pretends that Trump is anything other than one of President Musk's assistants.
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He's the part of the government that has the power to unilaterally change the name of a location.
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You're thinking of fascism. In America, the legislature names things, the executive signs or vetoes, and the judiciary adjudicates.
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Don’t forget apple
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You're thinking of fascism.
I have some bad news for you.
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Funny thing - I just checked yandex maps (because I'm bored) and it still shows "gulf of mexico" on it.
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Reporting about how the maps team reclassified the US as a "sensitive country", a la: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-country-like-china-russia-.html
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He wants to seize Greenland, Panama and Canada because they are either strategically important or have valuable resources, or both. This name change though is just because he hates Mexicans.
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Yes, and Congress delegated that authority in 1947 via Public Law 242, creating the US Board on Geographic Names, under the Secretary of the Interior, part of the executive branch. The President has the authority to direct the Secretary.
You can speak as confidently as you like, but you're still wrong. Feel free to learn: https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names
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Homie, I was never hiding it.
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You really weren't.
You should learn to hide your power level, lol~
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Less threatening... More doing.
The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they're slowly tearing apart OUR planet.
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Apply only the part of the name change that’s actually covered by US jurisdiction.
Strictly speaking, per the EO, this is what they should have done. The EO defines the area to be renamed as:
the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico
You can see exactly where that seaward boundary is on this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_ECS_Regions_2023.png
The area described is less than half the whole Gulf of Mexico.
