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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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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What the fuck is this shit?
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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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Same in Europe
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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 Information on my place is quite outdated, lots of work to do!
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Same here in Europe.
This is highly irregular for several reasons:
Google adheres to official government positions, yes, but as far as I'm aware the American government hasn't made the name change official yet. Members of the government have said that they'd do this, but I don't think this idea has passed any process yet. So then why is Google "updated" their maps?
When Google adheres to official government positions, they are local. In example, when you're in China and look up Taiwan, it'll appear as part of China. In other countries it'll appear as either an independent country or a disputed territory, depending on that government's official position on the matter. What we DON'T see is something like "Taiwan (China)", as Google supposedly has no intention on forcing the policies of one government upon another government, and as far as I'm aware the rest of the world hasn't agreed to changing The Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America.
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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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I don't honestly see a big issue with this. First of all: It's called Gulf of America, not Gulf of USA. Considering it's a gulf between south and north American continents it's actually a more fitting name and in no way excludes Mexico.
And secondly, you can just move on with your life and keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico and everyone will perfectly understand what you mean. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and telling you to adopt the new name. Same applies to Twitter and Facebook too for example.
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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.
