Summary
Google Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” for U.S. users following a U.S. government decision.
The U.S. Department of Interior recently announced the official name change, implemented by the Board on Geographic Names.
Google stated it updates names based on official government sources.
The name will remain “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico and display both names elsewhere globally.
This change stems from an executive order by Trump, who also reversed the 2015 renaming of Alaska’s Denali to Mount McKinley.
I wonder if they called it gulf if mexoamerica if it would be a funny compromise.
Sundar really likes kissing the ring
One of the defining characteristics of a fascist state is requiring economic entities to align with state interests.
It’s pretty difficult to kiss the ring when it’s all the way down on the base of the penis. It must be tough on him.
Did you not hear stormy Daniels account? It really wouldn’t be that tough.
This is what we call “bitch behavior”.
It’s the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
No, we yanks are familiar with this policy. We just think capitulating to this performative nonsense is ridiculous.
But I want Google to stick it to bad orange man, Google should represent me not official data, Google is a Nazi company!!! 😭😭😭
Good to know that the US needs it’s own safe space haha
Stupid is as stupid does.
The important part is “for US users”. The rest of the world does not care about Trumps childish tantrums.
Honestly, we don’t either.
I kind of get the whole 'Gulf of America’s, at least conceptionally, America is the continent yada yada yada, it’s fine, it’s silly but fine.
But the Mount McKinley stuff is really baffling to me. Afaik McKinley never even visited Alaska during his presidency, alaskans themselves tried to change the name since at least the 1980s and the only thing that stood in the way was Ohio, as McKinleys home state, blocking the name change, until in 2015 they eventually relented and the name was changed back to its original indigenous name.
Why would they change it arbitrarily again? I don’t understand? Is it just racism and it by chance happened during Obama’s presidency?
If you consider the most petty possible explanation for any of these “actions,” you’ll always be at least partially, if not entirely, correct.
Honestly, it’s the other way around for me. To be clear, Denali is a much better name than Mount McKinley for multiple reasons, but at least it’s our mountain and it was named Mount McKinley at one time.
Gulf of America is just a dumb power move that came out of nowhere, and it’s a body of water shared by multiple countries. It’s not like this is the only gulf named after only one country it touches out of a few - see also the Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Thailand, for example
kind of get the whole 'Gulf of America’s, at least conceptionally, America is the continent…
Y’all know that’s not the argument :-)
Why would they change it arbitrarily again? I don’t understand?
I firmly believe that Trump and friends are having a grand time trolling the world as petty revenge for losing 2020.
In other words, there is no reason other than they can do it and we can do nothing about it.
Google is just asking people to switch to Organic maps with this one.
Apple maps for those wondering:
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?
Because it’s fucking stupid.
I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn’t changed there
Funds must be allocated. That said, they want to get rid of the National Weather Service part of the NOAA and force everyone to use shitty Accuweather, so it will be a lot cheaper.
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 the reporting is the opposite of what they said.
No they didn’t. More fun to just be mad.
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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).
Pulling a Xi, are we? Amazing to see where the orange overlord is getting his inspiration from.
Kind of expected, Google maps show you a different version depending of where you are, aligning with your government position.
