Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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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.
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I'm just the messenger, kid. I'm not even in the USA, I'm in a different hemisphere watching with popcorn.
Good luck over there 🫡
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Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was "established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government."
It's a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn't entitled to rename things everyone was already in agreement about, lol~
