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

[oxideseven@lemmy.ca]

Does Google maps allow that? Does any map program?

[captainlezbian@lemmy.world]

You know what, sure whatever. It burns their political capital and it doesn't actively oppress people

[klear@lemmy.world]

How many planets are there in the solar system in your opinion?

[bfg9k@lemmy.world]

I switched to Proton mail and haven't looked back since

• Custom domain support
• Email encryption
• can auto-import from gmail

[ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml]

What the hell. No one’s going to call it the Gulf of America, except for the magas, the rapist and his useless offspring.

This is 4 years of drivel and it’ll always be knows as the Gulf of Mexico.

The man in charge is the biggest moron to ever be given power to lead.

Electing a rapist seems like a very American thing to do, who also married an immigrant, which is very odd since he’s doing his best to stop immigration.

Something something racist rapist hypocrite.

[captainlezbian@lemmy.world]

Oh so it'll become a shibboleth like how the capital of Ohio is pronounced and spelled "central ohio" if you're at the rare intersection of cool and ohioan

[internetcitizen2@lemmy.world]

Keep reporting it as a bug.

[daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

"Don't be evil"

What about we be evil anyway?

[goodtoknow@lemmy.ca]

also bad vibes https://tildes.net/~society/1ldg/proton_ceo_tweets_support_for_donald_trumps_department_of_justice_pick_and_the_us_republican_party

[goodtoknow@lemmy.ca]

https://tildes.net/~society/1ldg/proton_ceo_tweets_support_for_donald_trumps_department_of_justice_pick_and_the_us_republican_party

[uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca]

Pluto is still hot shit.

[metaphysika@lemmy.world]

I don't recommend Google Maps anymore. It's a really shitty map. I've been reporting bugs for ages and they never fix them. Also the GPS is really terrible, it sets the road full of constant turns and forces you to drive on small narrow internal roads instead of normal open roads. The localisation option sucks too, it keeps showing me that I'm somewhere else and my position is always a few metres off and it's so delayed that you don't know if you've made a good turn or not unless you wait like half a minute. Also the glitches in the map, missing locations, blurry photos, random photos swapped around and extreme inconsistencies. It's crazy that this shit is still being used. I bought a dedicated GPS for a car and in my phone and PC, I use OpenStreetMaps or its forks.

[sam_bass@lemmy.world]

Of course they will.

[refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org]

Magic Earth is proprietary, though. You can believe their privacy policy, but I have trouble believing any privacy policy if I can't see the source code.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

RiseUp, Disroot, Tuta...

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

International bodies of water tend to be named by... International governing bodies.

That said, Google's choices about which country to rely on has... Some real-world ramifications. Like the very... shall we say, "open to interpretation" border between India and Pakistan. Or, China and India's border.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

I'm maining privateemail through namecheap (custom domain) and I've got no notes.

Still got an ancient gmail for legacy stuff, but will definitely be moving stuff off of that now.

I guess there's no way to forward gmail emails after I delete the account?

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

I mean, we all know Canadians see things wrong

[epeegnome@lemm.ee]

It's my understanding that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally change official geographic names. As of my writing this, the name “change” has NOT been adopted by the United States government. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. Unless accepted by the US BoGN, it changes nothing. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.

Google are saying here that they will only change it on maps if it's made official by the US Government, which has not happened yet. That's why they haven't made any change yet, and won't unless Trump gets the US BoGN to do his bidding.

[dannymac@lemm.ee]

It's misdirection and makes any laws or regulations specifically mentioning the Gulf of Mexico no longer apply since "tHeRe iSnT a gULf oF mExIcO."