Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

[presidentcamacho@lemm.ee]

One of my favorite lines from early on in trumps rise to cult leader was "Conservatives would let Trump shit in their mouth just to watch liberals become disgusted"

[nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works]

I always heard it "...as long as a liberal had to smell it."

[presidentcamacho@lemm.ee]

Sadly though this was never going to be avoided, sure they're leaning hard into conservative cult nonsense, but they were still on a downword optics trajectory. Its impossible not to have this happen in capitalism, it will always be inevitable that enshitifcation happens to milk profit from anywhere it can, and that will always look bad.

[presidentcamacho@lemm.ee]

Yeah you're right, I couldn't remember the exact wording only the general sentiment, so i went with something close enough lol

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

They can name it how they want, the rest of the world will keep the current name. They could name it piss puddle and nobody would care.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

So why didn't they change Crimea to be part of Russia, if that's always been the longstanding policy, Google?

(Note; I'm not suggesting it is a part of Russia; just pointing out the hypocrisy since this is the same thing as Russia claiming ownership of Crimea.)

[hardcoreufo@lemmy.world]

I know I'm pretty pissed off about it too.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

They proved that by wearing nappies…

[selokichtli@lemmy.ml]

"Completely arbitrary trolling".

[smeenz@lemmy.nz]

There's little point in doing so, other than the feel-good moment. Google, and all other mapping companies, ultimately take their data from official sources. This differs per country, so users of maps from outside of the US will continue to see Gulf of Mexico, but complaining that it is wrong will only be ignored because they're following the data from the official US government source.

[justjack23@slrpnk.net]

Hey great idea, is there an open street maps app?

I found the StreetComplete one here

[furbag@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I've been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Following whatever is the official version of country names and even country borders based on user location has been the thing for many years now. Google probably doesn’t care and doesn’t make the exception for the US.

[ctkatz@lemmy.ml]

i think when they rebranded as alphabet, they repealed that corporate philosophy.

[daddy32@lemmy.world]

Like a little bitches they are...

[daddy32@lemmy.world]

They never fix bugs in maps. Some places IRL even got renamed, because it was easier than fixing the name in google maps.

[ctkatz@lemmy.ml]

is there anything android auto compatible?

[hobbes_dent@lemmy.world]

Except they’re waiting on bended knees aren’t they? They’ve show who their daddy is by announcing it.

[narp@feddit.org]

That doesn't make much sense, since Baja California was named California before the US-State which even belonged to Mexico back in the days.

If anything Trump is going to change California to Ivankia or Putinstan, but I guess at that point California will rather rejoin Mexico.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Makes as much sense as changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America IMO.