Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps
The company will also change the name of Alaska's Denali mountain back to Mount McKinley.
How’s that boot taste google
Google maps classifies USA as sensitive country
Should be called "snowflake" country
When they do it, We need to encourage people to report it as incorrect information. If everyone does it then it may be enough for show we don’t want this and don’t want to be seen as the fools the White House actually is.
Well that's OK. It's not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.
Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America
Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven't heard of?
As slurs go it's pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English "rosbifs", if they even still do that.
If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.
Anything that includes public transit routing? It doesn't look like OSM or MapQuest include public transit, and I'm not seeing an option to use Apple Maps via the web browser on Android.
For destinations I go to regularly, I can easily pull up schedules without Google maps, but if I'm going somewhere new, Google maps greatly simplifies the process of figuring out which route(s) to take.
No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss
mapbox?
Don't forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It'll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.
Guess they'll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America...
Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!
not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport
Gulf of Performative Nonsense
Gulf of Pretention
This has "freedom fries" energy all over it.
No, see y'all've got it backwards. It's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He's making it more inclusive!
/s
just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.
Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!
What till y'all find out they label Nihon as "Japan".
Google's doing what they always do, following official government naming conventions. If, and when, the US officially changes the name, they will follow suit.
Personally, I'd rather they get their back up and say "no", but at least they're being internally consistent.
I wanna know how "Nihon" got turned into "Japan" in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear "Nihon" as "Japan?" They don't even sound close! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!
It's from an old Portuguese recording of the Mandarin Cipan. So, yeah lol
Wait.....are you saying if I go to Japan, and learn the language, they'll refer to it as Nihon, and think I'm a stupid American for saying Japan instead?
@LostMyMind @shalafi English speaking Japanese call it Japan whole speaking English. Things have different names in different languages.
Baka Gaijin, but yes.
Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece "Hella" and Hungarians call Hungary "Magyarország" (Land of the Magyars)
someone needs to make a Firefox plugin that reverts the change.
We have now decided that this someone is you.
If I hadn't had a stroke in november and am still trying to get my brain back to normal I would totally learn how.
I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.
Just change every "X of Y" to "X of America."
Then we'll change the X, also to "America."
First thing first, rename the country as American America of America.
That (if taken literally)... would also make Elon "the CEO of America".
Maybe a CSS would work, stylus is fairly easy to use
Google a lil' bitch
EDIT: little to lil'
They honestly feel a bit like a satirical version of North Korea by isolating themselves with certain policies, and making crazy threats to anyone they can.
by isolating themselves
From healthy people
You can change the maps to suck up to the Orange Idiot, but you can't make people actually call it that.
I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.
Gulf of Mississippi. Let them be #1 in something nice.
I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.
Pathetic
Send error reports for every body of water in the unites States.
Label them all the gulf of mexico.
It really sucks that Google dropped "Don't be evil" from their mission statement.
Freedom gulf
Those companies always gravel, in China Taiwan is probably called “China’s island resort 🏝️”
/googles "boot licker"
should have been 'gulf of muricunts'
I'm amazed people care the slightest about this...different countries call the same places different things, it's exceedingly normal and nothing out of the ordinary.
I care because it's dumb and petty, and I refuse to let dumb petty things get an easy pass.
weak.
Honestly, since it's between North America and South America -- I'm kind of indifferent about it. It being called Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America isn't going to really change anything.
If it doesn't matter then why change it at all?
I dunno - why do you change your style of clothes in different seasons?
Because you want to. Does it need a greater explanation than that?
I'm down to clown when it comes to criticizing Trump for shit, but this realistically isn't going to do anything except make people big mad, for reasons they can't actually explain. If "your" candidate (whoever that is) wanted to do it, you'd make excuses for why it was a perfectly okay thing to do. I'm just reasonable and realize it doesn't really fucking matter. In 4 years it'll change back to Gulf of Mexico, and nobody will even remember it was a thing in 20.
So why let this rage bait drive you?
it's between North America and South America
You're thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.
It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn't really going to change anything
It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.
https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names
Did you give 2 shits about these names when they were changed?
You didn't? You didn't think of all the work the NOAA and the map producers and the GIS database would have to do in order to change ALL THOSE NAMES?!
Yeah. Exactly. You...didn't...give...2...fucking...shits.
So enough with the grandstanding.