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

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This is a good reminder and sanity check. Things this big are rarely easy to change.

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True. This is how it is with [Arabian|Persian] Gulf.

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You know Google owns Waze right?

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I think tutanota (now tuta) is pretty decent.

https://tuta.com/

Someone feel free to correct if I missed something bad about them.

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How do people not understand that Google Maps is regional, and the region sees their official government-endorsed maps?

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Given Colbert took the absurdity of conservatism in the US and cranked it up to 11... I'm not surprised it's becoming reality now.

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The discussion seems to be focused around possibly waiting for one or more governing bodies to rule on the name change, or just going along with it and adding an alternate text for people who would prefer the old one, which I think is way more democratic than anything Trump had in mind when signing this XO.

I certainly prefer this over the blind deference that Google seems to have for an executive order that is functionally just direction to the state department and not legally binding in any way whatsoever.

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Well yeah, as of 6 years ago, after China invaded with military force, HK has been recognized as part of China on all maps. But Google showed it as part of China even before then.

And then yeah, I just remembered the wrong name, it was the border of Tibet/Bhutan that was in dispute, so parts of Bhutan display as Chinese territory.

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HK was handed back to PRC, there was a ceremony and everything. Just because it was stolen by the British for sometime doesn't mean it isn't Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong

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Well the openstreetmap community aren't employed by a bunch of hacks perching on a tower of cardboard held together by a failing scheme of duck tape that nobody left after all the layoffs and enshittification knows how to repair.

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@ubergeek @ricdeh Are we far off minor skirmishes and war-ettes over what big G names various places?

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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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Get off my lawn.

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well google always displays the locally official names and borders. so just business as usual.

but why does the president of the usa get to decide what places are called? isn't there a cartography department or something?

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One of my favorite funfacts about the Colbert Report is that many conservatives couldn't tell it was satire.

So much so that Colbert earlier on was regularly invited to things like White House Dinner with Bush and Conservative Conferences. Even when he ended the show he claimed he had a lot of fan mail from Republicans saying they'd miss "Having a sane voice of reason on an otherwise liberal media network."

Some Conservative Subreddits even had to have guidelines explaining he was satire, some claiming he was a straight up "Left Wing Disinformation Agent!"

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