Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

[not_mikey@slrpnk.net]

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.

[sunshine@lemmy.ca]

Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!

[email protected]

[magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com]

/googles "boot licker"

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

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?

[fuzzywombat@lemmy.world]

Some Alternatives:

Open Street Map

Apple Maps

Map Quest

[roguebanana@lemmy.zip]

Maybe a CSS would work, stylus is fairly easy to use

[militantatheist@lemmy.world]

Freedom gulf

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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.

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

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.

[thefunkymonk@lemmy.world]

I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.

[etterra@discuss.online]

You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

Organic maps does

[letsgo@lemm.ee]

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.

[brsrklf@jlai.lu]

First thing first, rename the country as American America of America.

[siegfried@lemmy.world]

Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven't heard off?

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

You might need to add it to osm

[kitnaht@lemmy.world]

https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names

Did you give 2 shits about these names when they were changed?

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

Hasn't OSM also said that they will change it once it's properly completed?