Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
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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.
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If anyone's interested, here's what it looks like in Europe. The good news: this is the first time I've had to use Google Maps in a loooong time (ignoring embedded maps in other sites). OpenStreetMap is wonderful and there are some superb apps powered by it, including the ever-excellent Organic Maps.
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I’m in the process of migrating my saved locations and addresses to Organic Maps. Bye Google.
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I'm currently in France, this is what I see.
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
What a f*cking joke
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From the Wikipedia for Gulf of Mexico:
While the Interior Department confirmed that the Gulf of America name was effective for U.S. federal agencies, on January 24, the change does not apply in an international context.
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I love that it's not google, and the UI is nice, but the lack of realtime traffic info is a real blocker for me
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How does it compare to OsmAnd?
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+1. Couldn't care less. My life will go on. I'm not going to use GMaps anyway.
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I'm gonna start creating new pubs, bars and so on, everywhere I go, and call them Trump's Mexican Deli, Donnie & Elon's vacancy hotel, and so on. Please contribute (use an alternative google account) -
Also, report an error to google maps:
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Nobody is holding a gun to your head
Give them a few months
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Also a great choice. I prefer organic maps for a variety of reasons (like ability to contribute to the maps), but a lot of people prefer OsmAnd. They are both very good.
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You might be interested in Magic Earth is is also built on OpenStreetMap but includes crowdsourced traffic data. If you are in a big city then it's likely they have good data for your area.
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Time for a repeat comment: Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions), and is FOSS. Please encourage places to contribute business information to Open Street Maps.
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Allright. Let's revisit this in 6 months to see what happened - or didn't.
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And you'll see Amerida right at the bottom of the picture, that's the capital of Floricatan in the country of America..... Have you guys noticed how our country's name is not America? I would be a fucking retard if I named something "of America" when my country's name isn't America. As an example, all Mexican coins say "estados unidos mexicanos" or something like that. But the country is Mexico. Mexico is in America, but they don't say "mexico of America", because they are not fucking retarded.
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Just swapped apps. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Obviously that's not going to make one iota of difference. They're an American company and they have been ordered by the president of the country to do this. They already do similar things in other authoritarian countries like China and Turkey, because anything else would risk the safety of Google employees.
If you don't like it, change to a non-American product and/or vote for a different president.
