Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
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That's a weird flex by South Canada.
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If Justin Trudeau gets active on this, you can probably get it to Gulf of Canada (Gulf of Mexico) (Gulf of America).
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and the trillionaires will soon take over!
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you mean of course, to put the US on top, right. #USANumber1
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Did not know about Street Complete. Thanks for the recommendation!
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iirc, it's the policy for countries that google categorizes as "sensitive" (aka sensitive snowflakes). US users see gulf of America, but surrounding countries still see gulf of mexico.
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You do you, but that is literally yelling at a cloud.
Stop using Google services altogether, delete your accounts. Block ads. That's the only way to cost them some pennies.
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This is the way.
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Same in a little bit to your west Europe.
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Recently began contributing to OpenStreetMap. Information on my place is quite outdated, lots of work to do!
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I found this paragraph...
Can Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? Maybe, but it’s not a unilateral decision, and other countries don’t have to go along. The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the US and Mexico are members — works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them. There are instances where countries refer to the same body of water or landmark by different names in their own documentation.
From this webpage... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/can-trump-change-the-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america
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Cool.
In not at all related news disabling Google maps on your Android device can often be a source of delight! I never knew how capable organic maps was and it has a very nice auto integration.
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Naming things is complicated.
It's not really a case where some organisation has the authority to name something. Rather people just call something a name, and organisations adopt that name.
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Street Complete is amazing!
Perfect for people who find going on a walk too boring, like me -
The "big issue" with this it that it is being done entirely to appease the vain whims of an egocentric wannabe dictator, and for no other reason.
