Google to change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in maps

[maverick604@lemmy.ca]

I’m just gonna go ahead and refer to it as the “Gulf of Canada” — the way Trump is leading America, Canada will extend all the way down there soon enough.

And Google can go fck itself for capitulating even before being asked. Fck that company.

Organic Maps is very good. One killer feature is that it can run completely offline, doesn’t track you, and is considerably more battery friendly than Google Maps.

And if you’re on an Apple device, Apple Maps is actually quite good now and probably has the lowest battery drain of any map app (on Apple hardware).

[mkwt@lemmy.world]

I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn't changed there

[meathorse@lemmy.world]

Well, if that's how it works, every country now needs to renames the US to something else on their maps. Whoever has the best name wins something - like, the Olympics or free membership to the UN.

Suggestions now open, I'll start: "Little Girls Blouse"

[viking@infosec.pub]

Organic maps on fdroid. Using open street maps and have a pretty good UI, and offline maps.

[rivalarrival@lemmy.today]

They're renaming "New Mexico" to "South America"

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

I've asked my wife and she's OK if the government would like to come penetrate my anus for its pleasure as needed.

I'll have the lube ready, just let us known when you need it.

[bobs_monkey@lemm.ee]

Alternatives

Referring to it's proper name, the Gulf of Mexico

[atzanteol@sh.itjust.works]

It's just... No. I've used osmand for years and it's the absolute worst. The interface is way too complicated to use and the search is absolutely useless. I can only use it for offline maps while hiking to see where I am.

[jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world]

This is what we call "bitch behavior".

It's the Gulf of Mexico.

[reddig33@lemmy.world]

It’s a shame they haven’t been broken up. If they had been, many of the Google Graveyard products would probably still be around.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[mad_punda@feddit.org]

United States of Oligarchs

That’s a bit boring though. Maybe they could put out a call for sponsors every week, the winner gets to name it. We’d get names like:

• United States of Amazon
• X
• Murica
• iMerica (designed by Apple in California, assembled in China)

Which should drive home the point.
Would also help government funding.

[poach@lemmy.world]

The United Oligarchs of America

[generalemergency@lemmy.world]

You can really tell how sheltered yanks are with this news.

This is pretty standard for Google maps. Names of locations change depending on what version of maps you use.

Google will use the official data from the government of whatever region it is, and the government Americans voted for changed the name.

[errer@lemmy.world]

OSM will rename the Gulf Of Mexico eventually as well, by policy. See towards the end of this long discussion thread: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/73

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

I already refer to the states as “dumbfuckistan” or “burgerland” to people I talk to IRL when I refer to the states and most people know where I’m talking about with little context. So that’s my suggestion.

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

The important part is "for US users". The rest of the world does not care about Trumps childish tantrums.

[teolan@lemmy.world]

United Bullies of America.

[lordcrom@lemmy.world]

This is some next level dumb shit.

[geobloke@lemm.ee]

Good to know that the US needs it's own safe space haha

[geobloke@lemm.ee]

United Safe Spaces of Trumpistan