MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want
MapQuest's service has also refused to change the Gulf of Mexico's name, despite Trump's executive order last month to rename it as the 'Gulf of America.'
TIL MapQuest is still around.
Kind of makes me want to go back to printing 6 page instructions to destinations that I hold in my right hand and read whilst driving with my left hand.
I kind of did this with sticky notes on the dash during my last road trip. I was travelling through an area I knew would have poor reception at the time, so I made a bullet point list of the main road changes.
It was kind of nice not having to check a screen for directions.
Writing the directions down on a paper is still more convenient than taking out and unlocking ypur phone if a) you're on a bike; b) if it is cold out and you don't want to take off your gloves.
Right? It’s a darn fine marketing effort.
I used their mapping and geocoding APIs for years, back when I was negotiating contracts. They're good (at least in N. America) and 1/5th the price of google.
They have an app
Looks like his distraction is pretty effective.
I’m still sold on Gulf Dukat.
Dukat would be proud that the humans in an alternate timeline, where he's fictional, went and named something after him for all his great deeds.
And then he'd find out why we're really naming it after him and he'd try every underhanded trick in the book and a handful of new ones in order to find a way into our universe to show us how great he really is.
Not sure this falls flat or worse. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even a conversation. “It is what it is”
I think it's just making the point that anyone can name anything whatever they want, but it doesn't change what people call it. Obviously Trump thinks he's God so he probably actually thinks something has happened as a result of his declaration.
The stupid thing is every country and every language has always had different words for the same places.
The French don't call it France.
Water McGulfy
Gulfy McGulfface? Are we still doing that meme?
I mean we're making it with MapQuest, if there was ever a time for necromemecy it's now.
Gulfy McGulfface
Fuckin gottem.
Here's the direct link https://gulfof.mapquest.com/
Thank you for the link, I'm definitely sharing this with my friends
The real gulf of America is the gulf that Trump has ripped open between the US and its allies
It's really too bad that Mapquest still looks like it's from the 90s
At this point I think that’s probably a feature
MapQuest is from the 1990s.
I know. It hasn't changed
Based MapQuest.
This is the type of content I need in my life at the moment.
Here Maps kept it as the Gulf of Mexico
That feature actually could be just a map overlay. Who did play with oruxmaps or qgis knows what it is...
Fun! Thanks for sharing!
But don't tell the Great Tricktator, or you goto jail immediately.
Can we get over this and focus on the real shit that Trump is fucking up?
true people just aren't talking about that at all