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.
Google has no spine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, they reclassified Crimea as Russian territory on the localized Russian version, and in a lot of locales they either flag it as disputed territory, or territory belonging to no nation.
you bet your ass they’re going to do whatever Daddy tells them when it comes to the US. Lmao.
America isn’t a sovereign nation anymore, its a slave state beholden to Corpo Syndicates, The Russian Mafia, and Israel. Trump is just a dumbass they put in front of the camera to serve as a public face to the shadow mafia.
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.
Open Street Maps is a thing. Use it.
It’s also publicly editable and used to generate a bunch of other maps - even for government use. It would be a damned shame if people created burner accounts and started renaming things owned by Trump and Musk…
OSM will also eventually change it. It’s the official name of the gulf in the US. Like it or not, that’s the reality. Just like how English maps show “Japan” written over the country called Nihon.
No, they won’t. They’ll introduce additional names, but the gulf itself will not be renamed.
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571/102
I guess there’s multiple ways to address this. Google has the resources to easily serve different maps to each country, while showing multiple names is an easier strategy.
Organic maps is the one I use
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Switched to Apple Maps a few months ago, just one more reason to never switch back.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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 wonder if they called it gulf if mexoamerica if it would be a funny compromise.
Get ready for some other bootlicking from Google, then Trump will write an executive order to drop the antitrust cases against Google.
I will start calling the US Mexico of the North
Google has been doing this all along with other places, don’t suddenly get all up in arms when you guys clearly didn’t care before.
Explain?
Information on Google maps is different based on location. Most prominent examples are disputed borders like in Kashmir which are differently drawn in India and Pakistan.
Also pick your battles: with all the insane bullshit going on, naming of some body of water should be far down anyone’s priority list
Good to know that the US needs it’s own safe space haha
This is some next level dumb shit.
The important part is “for US users”. The rest of the world does not care about Trumps childish tantrums.
Honestly, we don’t either.
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.
