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

[0x0@programming.dev]

Most of them can't even place their own damn country on a map.

[0x0@programming.dev]

politicians are incapable of actually fixing any of our problems.

They're not incapable, they just don't care. They're your problems after all, not theirs.

[0x0@programming.dev]

So call Greenland Northwestern US and bingo! you can drill? Is that really a thought process in those heads?

[umbraroze@lemmy.world]

Well, the ball is in the court of the public transport agencies, then! While OpenStreetMap cannot be expected to accept any and all kind of geographic data imaginable, OSM is meant to serve map data that can supplement other data sources and services.

I'm in Finland, and there's at least a couple of Web services that do long distance bus/rail/plane route planning, all using OSM. Our municipal bus schedule service, mobile app and the bus stop displays have been using OSM for over a decade.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

They should change it to Gulf of $30 Eggs.

[52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org]

I'm old fashioned. It's still the Gulf of Mexico and Pluto is still a planet.

[bestbouclettes@jlai.lu]

They all bend the knee. Just wait until the persecution of political opposition becomes a thing.

[bestbouclettes@jlai.lu]

Call it Alaskb !

[bitwaba@lemmy.world]

Trump would be okay with that because it's still a fuck you to the left coast.

[ricdeh@lemmy.world]

Has nothing to do with bending the knee. The executive order literally changed the official name of the Gulf in the U.S. This situation is ridiculous, but it is the new U.S. government that you need to complain about, not the people implementing or deferring to their decisions.

[mrshankles@reddthat.com]

Huh, I didn't know the Sears Tower was renamed to Willis. Though the Sears Tower never comes up in conversations for me, I'll surely only ever know it as Sears. So yeah, that's a great point you make

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

Not legal

[rxbrad@infosec.pub]

Obama renamed Mt. McKinley to Denali by executive order. Trump is using executive order to rename it back.

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

It's all questionable use of executive order. But which party is going to step up and say "the last guy did it, but our guy shouldn't be able to ignore checks & balances anymore"?

[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.