Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates
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"The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called 'America South' and Canada 'America North'. Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on it's maps app."
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I have my own website account for personal stuff, and all the other stuff that was going to my Gmail account is being redirected now to Disroot.org where I'm slowly changing the address over for each mail that comes in. I know Disroot is probably not the best, but it was free, had POP3 and IMAP support (I use IMAP on my phone and POP3 on my desktop) and it's not used for anything too important).
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That's my read on it too. Trying to have it both ways, and not exactly succeeding at it.
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OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) "the official name that the US says it has". In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any "official US names that are not in common use yet".
Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it. -
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I don't think it's gonna work as well because people could afford to eat Big Macs everyday back then. No joke, the economic situation is so dire I'm saving up to treat myself and my boyfriend to a fancy dinner date....
The dinner is at fucking Waffle House
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That actually explains this stupidity doesn't it ...
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New York is different, that was hundreds of years ago before there were millions of printed maps and it's another thing to rename own landmarks or something which isn't within your country.
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Two reasons. Firstly, it's the principle of the thing - fuck Google for sucking up to Orange Shitler. Secondly, because somebody, somewhere in Google gets to deal with the endless reporting - even if all that reaction is is to have to write a script to auto-ignore that exact thing because it keeps popping up and there's nothing they can do to stop it.
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Almost spit my coffee out lol
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America is not special, why would Google make an exception to their global policy?
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They never wasted any time thinking about that, I fear
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Google added that the name Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed for users in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.
That's a bit pathetic, isn't it? Everything daddy Trump says but please, no backlash.
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Do you have any examples? It's impossible to find with a search with the recent news.
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Yes, OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/auto-car/
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Are you referring to smoothness=bad or a narrow width? (I'm guessing you've been using StreetComplete to specify each.)
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But to answer your question, absolutely. In fact, Waze's reporting is why Google bought out abs address those features to Google Maps.
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BRouter and other routing engines can use attributes like surface and smoothness (and probably width) to calculate routes.
