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

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

One of my favorite funfacts about the Colbert Report is that many conservatives couldn't tell it was satire.

So much so that Colbert earlier on was regularly invited to things like White House Dinner with Bush and Conservative Conferences. Even when he ended the show he claimed he had a lot of fan mail from Republicans saying they'd miss "Having a sane voice of reason on an otherwise liberal media network."

Some Conservative Subreddits even had to have guidelines explaining he was satire, some claiming he was a straight up "Left Wing Disinformation Agent!"

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

I don't think it's gonna work as well because people could afford to eat Big Macs everyday back then. No joke, the economic situation is so dire I'm saving up to treat myself and my boyfriend to a fancy dinner date....

The dinner is at fucking Waffle House

[isthisreddit@lemmy.world]

That actually explains this stupidity doesn't it ...

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

New York is different, that was hundreds of years ago before there were millions of printed maps and it's another thing to rename own landmarks or something which isn't within your country.

[etterra@discuss.online]

Two reasons. Firstly, it's the principle of the thing - fuck Google for sucking up to Orange Shitler. Secondly, because somebody, somewhere in Google gets to deal with the endless reporting - even if all that reaction is is to have to write a script to auto-ignore that exact thing because it keeps popping up and there's nothing they can do to stop it.

[beardedblaze@lemmy.world]

Almost spit my coffee out lol
Dzięki za to. Pozdrawiam zza oceanu.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

America is not special, why would Google make an exception to their global policy?

[petter1@lemm.ee]

They never wasted any time thinking about that, I fear

[firewire400@lemmy.world]

Google added that the name Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed for users in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.

That's a bit pathetic, isn't it? Everything daddy Trump says but please, no backlash.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Do you have any examples? It's impossible to find with a search with the recent news.

[goldfndr@lemmy.ml]

Yes, OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/auto-car/

[goldfndr@lemmy.ml]

Are you referring to smoothness=bad or a narrow width? (I'm guessing you've been using StreetComplete to specify each.)

[chiliedogg@lemmy.world]

But to answer your question, absolutely. In fact, Waze's reporting is why Google bought out abs address those features to Google Maps.

[goldfndr@lemmy.ml]

BRouter and other routing engines can use attributes like surface and smoothness (and probably width) to calculate routes.

[goldfndr@lemmy.ml]

Possibly not "companion" per se, but Every Door is available for iOS and MapComplete can run in browser. Go Map!! can provide more detailed editing.

[cocodapuf@lemmy.world]

I never said it was exceptional, quite the opposite, I'm saying many countries have border disputes.

Interesting that you don't seem to care about my other examples, Gaza or Crimea. Got a soft spot for China?

[panarab@lemm.ee]

What a weird response. I was addressing your comment. You didn’t mention Palestine and Crimea should be returned to the Crimean Tatars, both Slavic peoples are invaders.

[therealkuni@lemmy.world]

That’s incredible.

I was quite conservative back in 2006, having been raised that way and still years away from my “enlightenment,” but I knew Colbert was satire. I still thought he was hilarious. I’ve always thought it’s important to be able to laugh at yourself.

Bush clearly felt the same, he was laughing right along with the roast, and had just finished doing a bit with a Bush impersonator that also roasted him.

But Trump is incapable of humility, and cannot stand the traditional presidential roast at the Press Correspondents’ Dinner.

[cocodapuf@lemmy.world]

What a weird response. I was addressing your comment. You didn’t mention Palestine.

Oh whoops, it must have been a different post in this thread that I mentioned Gaza.

you would rather play the Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism card and assume that I receive Xi bucks.

I've said nothing of the sort. That sounds like deflection.

[justenoughducks@feddit.nl]

Holy shit, I never found smoothness in the OSM editor. Does that actually effect routing priority?

That might be a game changer for making my local area much better on OSM.