Google to change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in maps
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That's fair. For me none of the alternatives offer enough features to replace it. I often use it to highlight POIs of a type and all the different map views are great.
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Explain?
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Stupid is as stupid does.
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Freedonia
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Information on Google maps is different based on location. Most prominent examples are disputed borders like in Kashmir which are differently drawn in India and Pakistan.
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Switched to Apple Maps a few months ago, just one more reason to never switch back.
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Wave can stay dead though. I’m okay with that.
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Open Street Maps is a thing. Use it.
It's also publicly editable and used to generate a bunch of other maps - even for government use. It would be a damned shame if people created burner accounts and started renaming things owned by Trump and Musk...
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North Mexico
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OSM also uses localized names for places. So there might be name changes happening there as well.
Not sure exactly how they do it for international names, they probably have a system, but if Trump starts renaming towns and states in the US like "State of Pu**ygrab", "State of Hillaries-emails" or whatever, everyone has to adapt, in order to not be disrespectful of the people and culture of the united states.
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Organic maps is the one I use
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Did anyone read the tweet? They are defending their decision not to change the name, because the change isn't official. No, they haven't "announced they will change the name".
Yeah, you can logically conclude based on that that they will update it once it's official, but it's the reporting is the opposite of what they said.
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So if it's updated in an official source (not just because Trump wants it) but updated In the US geographic names system. Why would it not be updated at that point?
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No they didn't. More fun to just be mad.
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Google has no spine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, they reclassified Crimea as Russian territory on the localized Russian version, and in a lot of locales they either flag it as disputed territory, or territory belonging to no nation.
you bet your ass they're going to do whatever Daddy tells them when it comes to the US. Lmao.
America isn't a sovereign nation anymore, its a slave state beholden to Corpo Syndicates, The Russian Mafia, and Israel.
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OSM will also eventually change it. It's the official name of the gulf in the US. Like it or not, that's the reality. Just like how English maps show "Japan" written over the country called Nihon.
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Because it's fucking stupid.
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No, they won't, because the US is not the world. Why does their name matter more than the one everyone else uses?
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/102
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I guess there's multiple ways to address this. Google has the resources to easily serve different maps to each country, while showing multiple names is an easier strategy.
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Any client could choose to prefer region-specific names, but it's important to note that this is not the same as renaming the thing itself.