Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.
Google is pretty well known for displaying certain ‘contested’ things with different names in different countries.
It will change only for those viewing from the US I believe, not the rest of the world.
That this should even be ‘contested’ is a joke, but Google views this Trump-pandering as the price of their seat at the top table for this new administration, and they’re quite happy to do it.
If we have to rename it, my vote is for the “Gulf of CUM” (Cuba, USA and Mexico)
That’s fair isnt it? 💦
It sounds like their is only one English language version of Maps, so Canada, UK, etc. will also change.
The dumbest timeline…again.
Huh, I’m in the US and noticed it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.
They are likely waiting for the cartographers to finish their jobs… Unless they were asked to resign… Who knows how this government functions at this point.
Waiting for the presidential cars to be replaced with cyber trucks.
It’s not official until the Government enters it into the Geographic Names Information System. Once that happens Google will begin changing their maps.
I think the plan is if your in the US the name will change. I think. Something about USA being classified as a sensitive nation when before names didn’t hurt us.
Backbone lost.
Ahhh yes. The United States. A sensitive nation of white nationalist snowflakes. It’s honestly on brand.
I’m legitimately saddened by the fact this even needs to happen because of this moronic cretin.
I’m more worried about Elon ruining around in the treasury department at the moment.
Whatever they call the golf for the next 4 years is just whatever they call it for the next 4 years.
Google does a lot of geolocation dependent map drawing where borders are shown for one location and one country and in another location in another country
With all the illegal shit they are already doing and are going to do I personally don’t think there will be another election and if there is it will be like those in russia where the opposition gets imprisoned, released after the election and eventually murdered.
The gulf is renamed by fuckwits. Who says we have to use it. I refuse to call it anything but the Gulf of Mexico.
I personally don’t think there will be another election
I give it 60:40 there will have to be a coup to get him out this time.
dear lord, I hope we have it in us.
I’ve been slowly working on de-Googling my life more, but the second I see “Gulf of America” in Google Maps I will be deleting everything of theirs even my Gmail.
Google lost all my respect when they dropped the “don’t be evil” then doubled down on the being evil in pursuit of profit part.
My life is 100% degoogled. Took some time but I like it very much. Recently, I switched from OsmAnd (complex) to OrganicMaps (simple) and it’s great. I don’t get the traffic information, but this is how it is when there is noone tracking phones. I pay 1€ a month for Posteo-email and sync my contacts plus three calendars from them to my phone with DAVx³. It’s perfect.
So far I’ve got MapQuest and something called Maps.ME ready to replace Google.
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