Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps
2 years ago by Wilshire to c/technology
Google maps classifies USA as sensitive country
Should be called "snowflake" country
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.
Guess they'll do anything to appease the new self appointed co-dictators of North America...
Gulf of Pretention
No, see y'all've got it backwards. It's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of the United States of America. He's making it more inclusive!
/s
Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can't be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!
but we already have dystopian end-stage capitalism at home
This is mid stage at best. We could be ultra taxed down to pennies as a civilization, and I don't fully mean taxes just cost of living/food, cost of goods, medical, etc. Living like the movie Elysium.
just when you think this timeline can’t get any stupider.
Pace yourself, we got almost four years to go. At least.
Just change every "X of Y" to "X of America."
Then we'll change the X, also to "America."
I’ve made a couple of Firefox extensions just for personal/fun stuff, might give this a shot.
Maybe a CSS would work, stylus is fairly easy to use
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.
I wanna know how "Nihon" got turned into "Japan" in the first place. A lot of things are just from the foreigner mishearing; but how the hell did someone mishear "Nihon" as "Japan?" They don't even sound close! Not even from a thick Japanese accent!
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?
@Lost_My_Mind @shalafi English speaking Japanese call it Japan whole speaking English. Things have different names in different languages.
Baka Gaijin, but yes.
Wait until folks find out Greeks call Greece "Hella" and Hungarians call Hungary "Magyarország" (Land of the Magyars)
Some Alternatives:
Organic Maps (Mobile)
EDIT: Added Organic Maps
EDIT: Removed Apple Maps since they've made their change.
If you see the Gulf of Mexico pop up on street map your car may be floating.
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.
Hmm. I did find it in the OsmAnd app, but I'm very confused. I think it's just showing me trip durations, not actual schedules, and definitely not live bus data, nor any option to find routes based on a specific departure or arrival time. For the route I tested, it gave me 4 different options, all of which list a departure time of 0:00, even though it's early afternoon here.
Digging around the other apps I use, it looks like the live transit data that I'm used to is free to access. Is there something I need to do to get that linked up?
Organic maps does
I see the option for transit directions in the app, but I've tried a few different destinations that I've regularly visited via bus, and it only gave walking directions for all of them. I also tried the airport, which I usually get to via rail, and it says that subway navigation isn't available in my region yet.
No, Organic Maps works similarly to Google Maps and it's all on your device and foss
Hasn't OSM also said that they will change it once it's properly completed?
mapbox?
Switch to the open source and private Organic Maps folks!
not really an option for many ppl with useful features missing like satellite image, street view, public transport
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.
Except no one in the US except for McTrumpy calls it the Gulf of America
As slurs go it's pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English "rosbifs", if they even still do that.
Google a lil' bitch
EDIT: little to lil'
I mean if you want to be really stupid, call it the Gulf of Texas.
I call it The Gulf of Pennsilvania.
Gulf of Mississippi. Let them be #1 in something nice.
Pathetic
Don't forget the other random renaming he did, Denali. It'll always be Denali to myself and the climbing community.
- It sounds snappier than McKinley
- It actually had that name before. It wasn't just pulled out of thin air to be PC.
- 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.
Send error reports for every body of water in the unites States.
Label them all the gulf of mexico.
Those companies always gravel, in China Taiwan is probably called “China’s island resort 🏝️”
Freedom gulf
I can’t believe I still have it but I’m going to start actively changing emails on all my old accounts on services I had registered with gmail before I switched.
I'm amazed people care the slightest about this...different countries call the same places different things, it's exceedingly normal and nothing out of the ordinary.
I care because it's dumb and petty, and I refuse to let dumb petty things get an easy pass.
I dunno - why do you change your style of clothes in different seasons?
Because you want to. Does it need a greater explanation than that?
I'm down to clown when it comes to criticizing Trump for shit, but this realistically isn't going to do anything except make people big mad, for reasons they can't actually explain. If "your" candidate (whoever that is) wanted to do it, you'd make excuses for why it was a perfectly okay thing to do. I'm just reasonable and realize it doesn't really fucking matter. In 4 years it'll change back to Gulf of Mexico, and nobody will even remember it was a thing in 20.
So why let this rage bait drive you?
If "my" candidate wanted to do it, I'd seriously reconsider their fitness for office.
it's between North America and South America
You're thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.
It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn't really going to change anything
It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.
Did you give 2 shits about these names when they were changed?
You didn't? You didn't think of all the work the NOAA and the map producers and the GIS database would have to do in order to change ALL THOSE NAMES?!
Yeah. Exactly. You...didn't...give...2...fucking...shits.
So enough with the grandstanding.
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