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@Wilshire@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago

Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

www.cnet.com

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Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

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@Wilshire@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months ago
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The company will also change the name of Alaska's Denali mountain back to Mount McKinley.
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  • @iamericandre@lemmy.world
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    89•4 months ago

    How’s that boot taste google

    • Rentlar
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      39•4 months ago

      Google maps classifies USA as sensitive country

      Should be called “snowflake” country

  • @irish_link@lemmy.world
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    48•4 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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    35•4 months ago

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

  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    32•4 months ago

    Gulf of Performative Nonsense

    • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      0•3 months ago

      Gulf of Pretention

  • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    24•4 months ago

    just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.

    • Optional
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      1•3 months ago

      Pace yourself, we got almost four years to go. At least.

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    23•3 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.

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      4•3 months ago

      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?

      • @alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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        1•3 months ago

        Baka Gaijin, but yes.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      1•3 months ago

      Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece “Hella” and Hungarians call Hungary “Magyarország” (Land of the Magyars)

  • Vaggumon
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    22•4 months ago

    someone needs to make a Firefox plugin that reverts the change.

    • @darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12•3 months ago

      We have now decided that this someone is you.

      • Vaggumon
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        6•3 months ago

        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.

    • @nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works
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      5•3 months ago

      Just change every “X of Y” to “X of America.”

      Then we’ll change the X, also to “America.”

      • @Gumus@lemmy.world
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        2•3 months ago

        That (if taken literally)… would also make Elon “the CEO of America”.

    • @TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world
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      4•3 months ago

      I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.

  • @fuzzywombat@lemmy.world
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    Some Alternatives:

    Open Street Map

    MapQuest

    Organic Maps (Mobile)

    EDIT: Added Organic Maps

    EDIT: Removed Apple Maps since they’ve made their change.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      6•3 months ago

      If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.

    • @QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world
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      3•3 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.

    • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      1•3 months ago

      Hasn’t OSM also said that they will change it once it’s properly completed?

      • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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        1•3 months ago

        deleted by creator

  • Despair
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    17•4 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.

    • @labbbb2@thelemmy.club
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      4•3 months ago

      by isolating themselves

      From healthy people

  • @charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
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    Google a lil’ bitch

    EDIT: little to lil’

  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    15•3 months ago

    Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!

    !organicmaps@sopuli.xyz

    • @kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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      2•3 months ago

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

  • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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    13•3 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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      9•3 months ago

      Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America

    • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      Argybargies? Is that a new racial slur i haven’t heard of?

  • @raynethackery@lemmy.world
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    13•3 months ago

    I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      2•3 months ago

      I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.

    • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      1•3 months ago

      Gulf of Mississippi. Let them be #1 in something nice.

  • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    13•3 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.
  • masterofn001
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    12•4 months ago

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

    Label them all the gulf of mexico.

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