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

[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?

[gumus@lemmy.world]

That (if taken literally)... would also make Elon "the CEO of America".

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Don't forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It'll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.

1. It sounds snappier than McKinley
2. It actually had that name before. It wasn't just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
3. McKinley had nothing to do with the area, he was gov of Ohio. He never even visited it, it was just named after him to curry favor with him.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece "Hella" and Hungarians call Hungary "Magyarország" (Land of the Magyars)