• irish_link@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Guess they’ll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America…

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

  • Despair@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport

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    5 months ago

    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.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Don’t forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It’ll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.

    1. It sounds snappier than McKinley
    2. It actually had that name before. It wasn’t just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
    3. McKinley had nothing to do with the area, he was gov of Ohio. He never even visited it, it was just named after him to curry favor with him.
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    5 months ago

    Send error reports for every body of water in the unites States.

    Label them all the gulf of mexico.