Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps
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charade_you_are@sh.itjust.worksreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Google a little bitch
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not_mikey@slrpnk.netreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
it's between North America and South America
You're thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.
It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn't really going to change anything
It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.
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sunshine@lemmy.careplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!
!organicmaps@sopuli.xyz
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magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.comreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
/googles "boot licker"
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lost_my_mind@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.
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lost_my_mind@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Wait.....are you saying if I go to Japan, and learn the language, they'll refer to it as Nihon, and think I'm a stupid American for saying Japan instead?
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fuzzywombat@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
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roguebanana@lemmy.zipreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Maybe a CSS would work, stylus is fairly easy to use
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militantatheist@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Freedom gulf
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excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I'm amazed people care the slightest about this...different countries call the same places different things, it's exceedingly normal and nothing out of the ordinary.
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qualifiedkitten@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Anything that includes public transit routing? It doesn't look like OSM or MapQuest include public transit, and I'm not seeing an option to use Apple Maps via the web browser on Android.
For destinations I go to regularly, I can easily pull up schedules without Google maps, but if I'm going somewhere new, Google maps greatly simplifies the process of figuring out which route(s) to take.
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thefunkymonk@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.
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etterra@discuss.onlinereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.
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omegalemmy@discuss.onlinereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss
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omegalemmy@discuss.onlinereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Organic maps does
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letsgo@lemm.eereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Well that's OK. It's not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.
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brsrklf@jlai.lureplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
First thing first, rename the country as American America of America.
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siegfried@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 26 days ago last edited by
Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven't heard off?
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You might need to add it to osm
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kitnaht@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 26 days ago last edited by
https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names
Did you give 2 shits about these names when they were changed?
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