I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.

[woozle@toot.cat]

@DemocracyMattersALot My response to that BSery...

[adamantichrist@mastodon.social]

@DemocracyMattersALot I'm in Australia and it has gulf of America in brackets under the real name

[adamantichrist@mastodon.social]

@rwwh @DemocracyMattersALot then it can't be renamed by just one country on the continent, no?

[rwwh@mastodon.social]

@adamantichrist @DemocracyMattersALot hm. Most geofeatures have multiple names, and different ones used by different groups or different times? In NL we call “UK”, “VK” and “USA”, “VS”. Our own country we call “Nederland” but others call it “Holland” or “Pays Bas” or “Niederlande”. In many places Beijing used to be called Peking. Eswatini used to be called Swaziland until they changed it. It is true that I would frown a bit if NL beaches would suddenly be flooded by the Danish Gulf.

[z@blat.at]

@DemocracyMattersALot
Not in my Apple or Google Maps in Europe. It’s GoM (GoA) in both.

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@DemocracyMattersALot

One of the *many* reasons I use Kagi Maps and/or Open Street Maps instead...

Not looking back.

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[silent_john@mastodon.social]

@DemocracyMattersALot place and feature names on maps are usually the officially recognized names. Trump passed a law, as moronic as it is, and now we have a new name that these companies use. My map company does the same thing.

Not defending Trump, just explaining how maps are made.

[democracymattersalot@mstdn.social]

@silent_john

He issued an Executive Order, which doesn’t have a same weight as law—Congress never voted on it.

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@woozle @DemocracyMattersALot

Isn't "Great Againlandia" what the rest of the world calls "West Denmark"?

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@DemocracyMattersALot

I've played around with Google Maps using a VPN and I've found that it only shows as "Gulf of America" in the US. Everywhere else it shows "Gulf of Mexico" with the Trumpian variant underneath in parentheses.

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@adamantichrist @DemocracyMattersALot Yup. Pisses me off no end.

I have no problem with Google Maps showing local versions of names. If you happen to be in the USA and you look at that body of water, fine, show Trump's fantasy name. I don't care.

But outside the USA? It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's international waters. That's what it's called. End of.

[woozle@toot.cat]

@TheLancashireman @DemocracyMattersALot

Me to Denmark: Yes, please annex us! I'm pretty sure Greenland is run 1000x better than we are at this point.

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@silent_john @DemocracyMattersALot Yes but then:

* When you're inside the USA and you look at the map, show "Gulf of America". USA do USA, see if I care.

BUT

* When you're outside the USA, accept that the USA has no, ZERO, jurisdiction over the naming of international bodies of water. It's Gulf of Mexico OR whatever it's called in the local language, e.g. in The Netherlands you might see "Golf van Mexico".

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot And that should not be tolerated. International bodies of water? Reference IHO, UNGEGN and UNCLOS ...

The name is "Gulf of Mexico", so when one is outside the USA, that's what it should say or the local version thereof. Nothing else. No parentheses, nothin'

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@DemocracyMattersALot Still wrong. I'll turn in a correction for Gulf of Epstein.

[vonskinnback@mastodon.social]

@DemocracyMattersALot time to change the USA to the URA (United Rapists of the Americas) for everyone...

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@DemocracyMattersALot they did that months ago. I demand a review.

[d@norden.social]

@DemocracyMattersALot What's the problem? America is not U.S.A. and Mexico is a country on the American continent.

[jchaven@social.sdf.org]

@DemocracyMattersALot

Report it. Spam the shit out them.

[tewha@appdot.net]

@DemocracyMattersALot Only in the US, and showing local labels is probably appropriate.

Internationally, it shows the generally recognized label first (Mexico) and the disputed label (America) in parenthesis after.

I hate this, too, but it's how it's usually done. Place names are in dispute all the time.